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IZOLDA TAKÁCS: THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY 80 60 10 = Men 20 0 MSc PhD/DLA Assistant professor Docent Professor Chart 1. The rate of women and men at particular stages of the scientific course in Hungary (2014). Source: http://mta.hu/mta_hirei/attorni-az-uvegplafont-kijutniaz-utvesztobol-elsokent- ult-ossze-a-nok-a-tudomanyban-kerekasztal-az-akademian-107103 Female quotas for women in academia, or natural but slow change that might take decades? Because “[...] it would be hard to debate that to exclude 50% of a country’s brain capacity from the highest recognition, and the accompanying financial acknowledgement as well, would serve the disadvantage of the country’s science and its advancement.”! Nora Séllei in an exceptionally consequent manner proposed a question to consider in this topic, an aspect we need to be prioritise, for reasons she outlines: “...are we So wealthy that we can allow ourselves that the intellectual potential of women, making up more than a half of all the students in our current higher education system, can be left unutilized when it comes to their making steps towards an academic career?”!©? We may consider other European countries. The British Royal Society elected a membership 30% of which were women in 2015. The same figure was 26% in 2016. At the German National Academy of Sciences, the Leopoldina (Halle), which represents every scientific field, in 2014 and also in 2015, 33% of the elected candidates were women. They have a properly functioning and anti-discriminative system.'” In the Academy of Sciences of the United States, out of the nine elected Stanford professors, no less than five were women.” 168 Somogyi, P.: Alkalmasak-e a nék az Akadémiai tagsägra?, Magyar Tudomdny 2016/7, 2862. “By the way, the year 2007 was ‘the year of women’ at the Academy, when 7 women became correspondent members of MTA at once. That time the Chairman of MTA, Szilveszter E. Vizi aimed at raising the number of female academics, and he succeeded in it.” Lamm, V.: Nök az Akadémian, Magyar Tudomäny, 177, 2016, 867, http://www.matud.iif.hu/2016/07/14.htm (accessed 12 May 2017). 19 Sellei: Professzornök, 262. Somogyi: Alkalmasak-e a magyar nök, 862. VI Soltész, I.: Nők a Magyar Tudományos Akadémián, Magyar Tudomány 177, 2016, 1130. * 60 °
