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Science is sometimes defined as a way of seeing things. Women still far too often constitute a "blind spot" in the vision of the scientific community.

Veronica Stolte-Heiskanen in Women in Science - Token Women or Gender Equality (1991).

FINNISH WOMEN'S ACADEMIC CAREERS


1999 women % men %
assistants 45.4 54.6
senior assistants 33.4 66.6
professors 17.9 82.1