Is Myanmar a paragon of scientific gender equality? Look at the following map, and it can't help but intrigue you. Part of a Unesco report on women in science around the world, countries were coloured in according to what proportion of their researchers were women - the more male-dominated the research community, the darker the shade of blue; the more women, the brighter the pink. Sticking out from the crowd in Asia, Myanmar lit up, the pinkest of them all. According to the tables, 85.5% of researchers in Myanmar were women. Worldwide, the figure is less than 30%.
Can the figure really be that high? Probably not - according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization itself Unesco told BBC News the data on which it had based its report had been gathered in 2002 by Myanmar's Ministry of Science and Technology - and some of Myanmar's universities might have included all of their teaching staff, not just those carrying out research.
Can the figure really be that high? Probably not - according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization itself Unesco told BBC News the data on which it had based its report had been gathered in 2002 by Myanmar's Ministry of Science and Technology - and some of Myanmar's universities might have included all of their teaching staff, not just those carrying out research.
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