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An Interpretation on Number of Women Scientists in Turkey, Finland and Russia  

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An Interpretation on Number of Women Scientists in Turkey, Finland and Russia Being curious living things, human beings have always questioned the world and the universe. Either women or men, people have searched for more knowledge since prehistoric times. Science in the early times started with scholars and their schools of teaching and thinking. In those times, science was mostly to understand more basic entities in the world as compared today's science, which tries to understand from the smallest part of the universe to the whole universe. Looking science with this approach, science should be a concern for everybody. However, there have been some branches of academia regarded as masculine, like mathematics, physics and some feminine like psychology and literature. According to Wiesner (2002), these distinctions are due to cultural norms, technological developments; religious and intellectual currents, economic institutions, and popular beliefs. Science, likewise being the money-supplier of family, had been men's work many times in the history. For instance,...

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