A comparision of productivity of male and female scientists of CSIR

The paper examines the scientific productivity of male and female scientist s working in the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Indi a at the overall agency level and at the group of laboratories level, chara cterized by three broad subjects of physical, biological, and engineering s ciences. The productivity of scientists is evaluated on the basis of three parameters: the extent of scientists not publishing any paper, the average number of papers per scientist, and using Lotka's approach. In order to fin d out whether there is any significant difference between male and female p roductivity distributions, a Chi-square test is used. Studies the applicabi lity of Lotka's inverse power law and some other statistical models in the distribution of scientific productivity of male and female scientists. Conc ludes that no significant difference exists between productivity distributi ons of male and female scientists.