The women in higher education R&D activities in the Basque Country

Abstract

In recent years, the activities related to gender equality has progressed; but, there is still a long way to go towards achieving a real equality between women and men. In order to help in the equality process, the objective of this research paper is to analyze the women representation by execution sector in R&D activities in the Basque Country and to further investigate the women in higher education. The Statistic Institute of Basque Country (Eustat) provides us the historical data about R&D activities to verify the proposed hypotheses in this study.