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21 Mar 2019
GenderInSITE present at the 63rd UN Commission on the Status of Women
GenderInSITE, represented by its Director, Prof Roseanne Diab, participated in a roundtable titled “What drives the gender gap in science, technology and innovation? And how do we close it?” at the 63rd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York on 20 March 2019. The session, which was organized by...
CSW63 // report // UN Women // UNESCO // New York // gender gap in science // gender gap // STEM // L'Oreal
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27 Sep 2018
Gender gaps in African agriculture are holding back progress
Gender gaps in agriculture in Africa are holding back progress towards ending hunger and must be urgently addressed, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Director-General José Graziano da Silva said at a joint event with the African Union (AU) on the margins of the UN General Assembly.
Uganda // development // agriculture // world hunger // FAO // United Nations // gender gap
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18 Jun 2018
Gender Gap in Science project aims to gather data on women in science worldwide
GenderInSITE has partnered with several international scientific unions as well as OWSD and UNESCO in the ICSU-funded project, A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It? This project aims to gather...
gender gap // gender data // women in science
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08 Aug 2017
The Gender Gap Cannot Be Measured in Just Dollars
The Gender Gap Cannot Be Measured in Just Dollars ... Young girls and women collecting water from a water spring situated in a cabbage field ...
gender gap // gender equality // social justice
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08 Aug 2017
Women In Medicine Face the Same Barriers to Success as Women in Tech
The episode also underscores the struggles that women face in STEM and related ... time-consuming field that requires extensive and expensive education. ... The gender gap in medicine, as with STEM overall, is prevalent in both ...
gender gap // women in SITE // medicine & health
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08 Aug 2017
Leading Tech Firms Committed to Closing Skills Gap by Promoting Women in STEM
Similarly, Oracle has invested $3 million to educate girls in STEM fields ... Even Google, who had some gender and diversity-related issues a few ...
women in technology // gender gap
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27 Oct 2016
Young Girls Are Closing The Gender Gap In Science Achievement
White men continue to dominate employment in the STEM workforce, but at ... The results of the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress ...
Huffington Post // STEM education // gender gap
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27 Oct 2016
Good news, women: Only 170 more years until the gender gap fully closes!
The gender pay gap in economic opportunity and participation, education, ... While it found significant improvements in both health and education, ... a factor exacerbated by women often not being as well-educated in the STEM ...
Salon.com // gender gap
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30 Aug 2016
Mobile apps for farmers don’t reach women
This article was written by Henrietta Miers and originally appeared on the SciDev.net Analysis blog. A smartphone app called IFA Krishi Nepal has been designed to inform Nepali farmers about agricultural techniques, livestock disease, the weather and market prices, ...
agriculture // Site For Women // IT // mobile technology // gender gap // Nepal