Introduction and acknowledgements

WOMEN-IN-RESEARCH AUDIT REPORT

This report is a product of collaboration between the Women-in-Research Project, a sub-programme of the Thuthuka Programme of the National Research Foundation (NRF) and numerous women in the research community.

Patience Tshose, the Professional Officer for the Women-in-Research project was instrumental in developing the research instrument (see appendix A in the report). I would especially like to thank the following people for their contribution to the completion of this audit:

However, the audit would not have materialised were it not for the assistance of many institutional coordinators who took responsibility for disseminating the questionnaire.

More than 500 women academics and researchers made the audit a reality by completing the questionnaire and submitting it on-line for analysis and the production of the report.

This report contains the findings of the audit. The audit was intended to generate a profile of women researchers across the science domains at all research institutions and their particular needs. This it did! This report is by far not the final word on women researchers at South African research institutions. Rather, the findings might raise numerous questions that the audit itself was unable to answer.

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