VP: Women Enjoy 11% Share of Technological Businesses in Iran
“61% of Iranian women have entered universities, but their share in technological businesses is only 11%,” Behrouz Azar said.
She underlined that the government of Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian is making efforts to increase this share to 30% in 4 years.
“One of our challenges in this area is securing capital, and we hope that solutions will be found to address this challenge,” Behrouza Azar said.
Late last year, Head of the Islamic World Science and Technology Monitoring and Citation (ISC) Institute Ahmad Fazelzadeh announced that 60 highly cited Iranian female researchers are among the top two percent in the world.
He added that 135 out of 938 Iranian researchers are standing among the world's top one percent most-cited researchers in 2023.
“Based on the latest report of this institute, there are 557 highly-cited Iranian female researchers among the highly-cited researchers, which constitute 12.75% of the highly-cited Iranian researchers,” Fazelzadeh said.
He added that some 135 out of 938 Iranian researchers who have been recognized among the world's top one percent most-cited researchers in 2023 are female scholars.
Women are an important part of society, playing an important role in the development of human societies, Fazelzadeh said.
He added that according to the Stanford University List which was conducted by a number of researchers from Stanford University and the Elsevier Institute via analyzing the data of the Scopus database, 60 highly cited Iranian female researchers are among the top two percent in the world (service performance) in eight subject areas including Clinical Medicine, Chemistry, Biomedicine, Strategic Technologies (Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, etc.), Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Physics and Astronomy, Information and Communication Technology, and Engineering.
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