11 February: International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Today we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a day that should be strongly marked in our calendar. As a society we should be focused on equality not being news but, unfortunately, it is. We have to fight to ensure that data such as the following are no longer in the news:
- According to a 2022 study, one in two women scientists have reported experiencing sexual harassment at work. We urgently need a change in the structure and culture of scientific workplaces.
- As women advance in their scientific careers, the gender gap is widening. In research management structures, the proportion of women in leadership positions remains disproportionately low.
- In cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, only one in five professionals (22%) is a woman.
- Despite the skills shortage in most of the technological fields driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution, women still represent only 28% of engineering graduates and 40% of computer science and informatics graduates.
Let’s keep fighting for those women and girls who are on their way to becoming scientists, mathematicians, engineers,… around the world and have the right to live the life they want and to do so with total security of well-being and equality.
Here is this year’s campaign of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
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