ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT INTEGRATED INTO THE CURRICULUM
December – January 2013
Grade: 1rst
Course: “Research Project”
Teachers: Mrs. E. Koundouraki, Mrs. E. Mystakopoulou
Subject: “Greek Women in Science”
The students were interested in investigating the opinions of their peers for the role and the position of Greek women in Science. They made questionnaires, distributed among their peers, and processed them. The results were surprising. Contrary to common belief, our students answered that women are capable in all scientific fields, Humanities and Science. Women can succeed equally well as men in Science. Moreover, they can even lead a research team. Gender does not play any role when taking a decision to trust a lawyer or a physician. The students feel that the lower percentage of women's participation in Science is due to social rather than biological reasons. Those results are very inspiring because of two main reasons: first of all only the 46,5% had a women scientist in their family and secondly the 57,6% of the sample were men.
