The project aims to identify and record the situation of Greek women researchers that are active in universities and research institutes, and to register their participation in decision-making centres.

The mapping exercise is based on a specially formulated questionnaire and personal interviews with a pre-selected sample of researchers. The expected results are the qualitative and quantitative recording of the female researchers in the public sector, the production of useful statistical indicators and the identification of the parameters and the obstacles that affect women in the development of their scientific career.

The project also includes the registration, at pilot level, of postgraduate thesεs of women on issues related to gender, family, employment, policies and equality. The development of an integrated bibliography of Greek and international articles, written by Greek female researchers on the above thematic areas, during the period 2001-2005, is also scheduled.

The statistical data and the production of indicators will contribute to the evaluation of the current position and the evolution of female researchers in the public sector, as well as to the benchmarking with international data. Particular emphasis is given to the participation of women in high scientific and managerial posts, the development of their scientific career, their diaspora per scientific field, the relation between their professional duties and their role in the family, the scale of their problems in the working environment, the inequalities in salaries and the efficiency of the evaluation system.

The indicators and the statistical results will be utilized for the estimation of gender discrimination.