Women in STEM Indonesia Index (WISIDEX)
An analysis of quantitative data will be drawn upon to develop a ‘Women in STEM Indonesia Index’ (WISIDEX) designed to rank the achievements of different institutions against a range of gender equality performance criteria. We will use publicly available secondary data to inform WISIDEX including: proportion of female STEM faculty, proportion of female STEM full professors, data on grants awarded to female STEM academics, and SINTA and publication scores. Given the size of the Indonesian HE sector, it is not possible to include all HE institutions in the index. Rather, we focus on ensuring a balance between researchers based in Java and elsewhere in Indonesia.
Focus Group Discussions (FGDs)
The qualitative research will involve in-person and online focus groups made up of female STEM researchers at a variety of career stages and pursuing their careers at a range of different institutions and in different STEM sub-fields. Focus group discussions (approx. 5 participants per group) will be led by project research assistants and will focus on issues such as institutional support for female academics, gender stereotypes and norms, work-life balance and how other contextual factors (economic status, religion, ethnicity) have impacted career development and ability to generate research funding. Women ‘success stories’ will be identified from the focus group discussion and will be approached to feature on the project website.
