<p>Gender parity at top science institutes in Karnataka remains elusive as the UN marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on Feb. 11.<br /><br />An analysis of data from the Ministry of Human Resource Development shows that the systems have to be thoroughly revamped for women to even reach the 30%-mark in faculty positions. The Indian Institute of Science, the top-ranked Indian university, is "heading" the disparity indices.</p>.<p>To understand the numbers, the best three institutes in the state in the HRD Ministry's National Institutional Ranking Framework was analysed from the three categories -- the universities, engineering and pharmaceutical institutes.</p>.<p>Among the nine institutes, the Manipal Academy of Higher Education has the highest women faculty ratio with a 40% representation. The institute also has the highest number of faculty among the nine institutes. IISc is at the bottom of the list with only 6% women faculty out of 447. Women makeup 14% of the faculty at the Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences and 15% at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research.</p>.<p>The students’ gender ratio is better than that of the faculty. Women constitute more than 50% of students at all three pharmaceutical colleges. The N.G.S.M. Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences has 77% while the faculty share is only 30%. IISc has 26% women among the students.</p>.<p><strong>The case of the 'top university’</strong><br /><br />The NIRF ranking has a section ‘Outreach and Inclusivity’ (OI) in which the parameters set are “50% women students and 20% women faculty and 2 women members in senior administrative positions required to score maximum marks (100).” IISc scored 67.6 in the OI score. Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research is much worse with 47.44.</p>.<p>The lack of women at the administrative level is one major reason for IISc's gender disparity. No women found a place among the four ‘leaders’ -- the Visitor, President of the Court, Chairman of the Council and the Director of the IISc administration.</p>.<p>Only one Dean out of five, the Dean of the Undergraduate Program, is a woman. </p>.<p>Not a single woman is part of the top administrative body, the Council, which is constituted with the representatives and nominees of governments and other bodies.</p>.<p>And finally, no women have headed the institute since its launch in 1906. IISc has had 19 directors/acting-directors so far -- it's an all-men list.</p>
<p>Gender parity at top science institutes in Karnataka remains elusive as the UN marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on Feb. 11.<br /><br />An analysis of data from the Ministry of Human Resource Development shows that the systems have to be thoroughly revamped for women to even reach the 30%-mark in faculty positions. The Indian Institute of Science, the top-ranked Indian university, is "heading" the disparity indices.</p>.<p>To understand the numbers, the best three institutes in the state in the HRD Ministry's National Institutional Ranking Framework was analysed from the three categories -- the universities, engineering and pharmaceutical institutes.</p>.<p>Among the nine institutes, the Manipal Academy of Higher Education has the highest women faculty ratio with a 40% representation. The institute also has the highest number of faculty among the nine institutes. IISc is at the bottom of the list with only 6% women faculty out of 447. Women makeup 14% of the faculty at the Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences and 15% at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research.</p>.<p>The students’ gender ratio is better than that of the faculty. Women constitute more than 50% of students at all three pharmaceutical colleges. The N.G.S.M. Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences has 77% while the faculty share is only 30%. IISc has 26% women among the students.</p>.<p><strong>The case of the 'top university’</strong><br /><br />The NIRF ranking has a section ‘Outreach and Inclusivity’ (OI) in which the parameters set are “50% women students and 20% women faculty and 2 women members in senior administrative positions required to score maximum marks (100).” IISc scored 67.6 in the OI score. Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research is much worse with 47.44.</p>.<p>The lack of women at the administrative level is one major reason for IISc's gender disparity. No women found a place among the four ‘leaders’ -- the Visitor, President of the Court, Chairman of the Council and the Director of the IISc administration.</p>.<p>Only one Dean out of five, the Dean of the Undergraduate Program, is a woman. </p>.<p>Not a single woman is part of the top administrative body, the Council, which is constituted with the representatives and nominees of governments and other bodies.</p>.<p>And finally, no women have headed the institute since its launch in 1906. IISc has had 19 directors/acting-directors so far -- it's an all-men list.</p>