The Brazilian Academy of Sciences

The Brazilian

Academy of Sciences

Lucia Mendonça Previato

Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

According to the Brazilian Census 2010 (Brazilian Institute of Geography and

Statistics), the total population of the country is of

190,732.694 citizens

97,342,162 (51.04%) women

93,390,532 (48.96%) men

Brazil

Country

Population

Does the Academy keep membership data broken down by sex?

Are these data open to the public?

Yes

This information is available upon request. The Academy is currently in the

process of structuring a Working Group on Women for Science.

A specific area for this WG will be created on the Academy’s website and one of

the ideas is to make this information available in the website.

Brazilian Academy of Sciences

Does the Academy serve as an adviser to government?

How many members does your academy have? How many, or which percentage,

are women?

How many are women in S&T?

Note: The following data was collected on Jan 27, 2011

Member by sex

Woman

97

13.02 %

Man

648

86.98 %

Total

745

100 %

Full Member by sex

Woman

51

11.70 %

Man

385

88.30 %

Total

436

100 %

Full Members are native or naturalized Brazilians, or foreigners living in

Brazil for more than 10 years, with outstanding scientific achievements

Corresponding Member by sex

Woman

8

5.10 %

Man

149

94.90 %

Total

157

100 %

Corresponding members are outstanding foreign scientists that have

contributed significantly to the development of Brazilian science

Associate Members by sex

Woman

17

25.00 %

Man

51

75.00 %

Total

68

100 %

The Associate Member category, created in 1949, has been extinguished. This

decision was based on the comprehension that there was no reason for the

maintenance of two different levels of association for Brazilian scientists, since

the sole criterion for membership is merit. The existing Associate Members will

have preserved their rights and obligations, being guaranteed to them the

possibility of election as full members

.

Collaborating Member by sex

Woman

0

0.00 %

Man

1

100.00 %

Total

1

100 %

Collaborating Members are personalities who have rendered outstanding

services to the Academy or to the national scientific development

Affiliate Member by sex

Woman

21

25.30 %

Man

62

74.70 %

Total

83

100 %

Affiliate members are talented young Brazilian researchers elected to the

Academy for a period of 5 years, non-renewable

Full Members by Area

Area

Membership

Woman

%

Man

%

Social Sciences

19

5

26.32 %

14

73.68 %

Biological Sciences

27

7

25.93 %

20

74.07 %

Biomedical Sciences

102

15

14.71 %

87

85.29 %

Chemical Sciences

50

7

14.00 %

43

86.00 %

Agrarian Sciences

22

3

13.64 %

19

86.36 %

Health Sciences

23

2

8.70 %

21

91.30 %

Physical Sciences

69

5

7.25 %

64

92.75 %

Earth Sciences

44

3

6.82 %

41

93,18 %

Mathematics

51

3

5.88 %

48

94.12 %

Engineering Sciences

29

1

3.45 %

28

96. 55 %

How many woman members of your academy presently participate at

decision-making levels?

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President Jacob Palis Junior

Vice-President Hernan Chaimovich Guralnik

Regional VP North Adalberto Luis Val

Regional VP Northeast Cid Bartolomeu de Araújo Regional VP South Francisco Mauro Salzano Regional VP Minas &

Center-West Francisco César de Sá Barreto

Regional VP Rio

Elisa Reis

Regional VP São Paulo Adolpho Melfi

Director Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz

Director Evando Mirra de Paula e Silva

Director Iván Izquierdo

Director Jerson Lima da Silva

Director Luiz Davidovich

FISCAL COUNCIL

Jailson Bittencourt de Andrade Luiz Bevilacqua

Sérgio Henrique Ferreira

CONSULTATION COUNCIL

By Section

Agrarian Sciences Paulo Arruda

Biological Sciences Francisco Mauro Salzano Biomedical Sciences Guilherme Suarez-Kurtz Chemical Sciences Angelo da Cunha Pinto Earth Sciences Alcides Nóbrega Sial Engineering Sciences Nelson Maculan Filho Health Sciences Wagner Farid Gattaz

Mathematics

Keti Tenenblat

Physical Sciences Adalberto Fazzio Social Sciences

Elisa Reis

By Region

North / Center-West Horacio Schneider

Northeast João Lucas Marques Barbosa

South Gerhard Jacob

Southeast Sérgio Henrique Ferreira

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE

Jacob Palis Junior President

Cid Bartolomeu de Araújo Physical Sciences Elias Ayres Guidetti Zagatto Chemical Sciences Fernando Cosme Rizzo Assunção Engineering Sciences Fernando Garcia de Mello Biomedical Sciences Francisco Mauro Salzano Biological Sciences

Helena Bonciani Nader

Jorge Luiz Gross Health Sciences

José Fernando Perez Physical Sciences

Paulo Arruda Agrarian Sciences

Reinhardt Adolfo Fuck Earth Sciences

Ruben George Oliven Social Sciences

Strong/weak points of your academy regarding

gender issues

Your country’s barriers to women’s education

and careers in S&T

Strong/weak points of your academy regarding gender

issues

Your country’s barriers to women’s education and careers

in S&T

Actions for WfS-WG

The scientific and technological entrepreneurship must belong to all,

independent of nationality, religious belief, social background,

ethnicity, or sex.

The Brazilian Academy of Sciences (BAS) decided to establish and fund a

Women for Science Working Group. This WG will be holding its first meeting

in the beginning of 2011 to discuss its objectives and working plan, and in the

second semester of the coming year a national workshop will be organized,

aiming the discussion of strategies for the sensitizing of the Brazilian scientific

community to the need of promoting a more favorable environment for the

participation of women in the areas of Science and Technology (S&T) in

Brazil.

Strong/weak points of your academy regarding gender issues

Your country’s barriers to women’s education and careers in S&T

Actions for WfS-WG

One step by the BAS in the effort to collaborate more effectively in the

development of a more inclusive environment for women in Brazilian

science was the establishment of a partnership with L’Oreal –UNESCO

Brazil in January 2006, when a national “For Women in Science” prize

was launched.

In June 2010, the BAS hosted the 7th Meeting of the National Focal Points

of the Inter-American Network of Academies of Science (IANAS) Science

Education Program in Rio de Janeiro. Understanding the shortcomings of

traditional science education that affect girls and women, the meeting

focused on gender issues in science education and discussed the

empowerment of girls and women in S&T, and the role of the Academies

in removing obstacles to this enterprise.