1. Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Women Astronomers in
Taiwan
You-Hua Chu
Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Academia Sinica

2. Topics: Statistics of women faculty Scientific productivity
Percentage of women speakers
at conferences
Leakage of women in academic
pipeline
5. Take home message

3. Statistics of Women Faculty

4. Astronomy Faculty Academia Sinica
Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics 28 (7)
Universities
National Central University (NCU):
National Tsing Hua University (NTHU): (2)
National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU): 4 (1)
National Taiwan University (NTU):
Tamkang University (TKU):
Fu Jen University (FJU):
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU): 1
National Sun Yet Sen University(NSYSU): 1

5. Percentage of woman faculty:
ASIAA % %
Universities 11%
ASIAA+Univ. 18% %

6. ASIAA
You-Hua Chu (UC Berkeley, 1981)
Naomi Hirano (Tohoku U, 1987)
Sienny Shang (UC Berkeley, 1998)
Ciska Kemper (U Amsterdam, 2002)
Tzu-Ching Chang (Columbia U, 2003)
Li-Hwai Lin (Nat Taiwan U, 2006)
Sherry Suyu (Caltech, 2007)
NTHU
Shih-Ping Lai (U Illinois, 2001)
Vivien Chen (UC Berkeley, 2004)
NTNU
Wei-Ling Tseng (Nat Central U, 2008)

7. Scientific Productivity
Women vs ASIAA

8. Year M21 W7 W7/M21 [W/M] W5 [W/M] W6 [W/M]
Total

9. Total # of Papers Published Per Year
100 50
21 men
7 women

10. Papers per Woman / Papers per Man
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
(4 of the 7 women have a total of 9 children.)

11. Percentage of Women Speakers
at Conferences

12. Percentages of Women in AAS and IAU
# of Women/Total
AAS All Members %
AAS All non-Junior %
IAU All Members %
AAS = American Astronomical Society; IAU = International Astronomical Union
Cited from ; updated June 2014

13. Percentage of Women Speakers
Histogram of % of Women Speakers
(Meetings in held in North America and elsewhere)
Number of Conferences
Percentage of Women Speakers
(Aug 9, 2013)

14. ASROC Annual Scientific Meetings
Women/Total / /166
Participants = 24% = 24%
Women/Total / /42
Speakers ~ 29% ~ 29%
ASROC = Astronomical Society of the Republic of China

15. Meetings organized by ASIAA have
all paid attention to gender balance
and tried to avoid unconscious bias.

16. Leakage of Women in
Academic Pipeline

17. Women Astronomers in
Academic Ladder

18. 56 departments/institutes surveyed
Tenured Women Faculty
2013 October 17
56 departments/institutes surveyed
1st Q >25%
Median 14%
4th Q < 9%

19. Leakage in the academic pipeline
What cause the leakage?
- job outside academia
- family/childcare !!!
Tenure clock roll-back
Eliminate rigid age limit
Ease the hardship of childcare
- disgusted by harassment

20. Take Home Message Women astronomers in Taiwan are doing very well.
There is still room for universities to
improve their hiring.
Women with children are as productive
as anybody, if not more…