UN women demand policies that foster inclusive environments

On International Women and Girls in Science, UN Women Mexico stressed that genius has no gender, but prejudices weigh and called to promote inclusive environments through policies and measures that encourage the presence of women in scientific disciplines.

UN Women Latin America and the Caribbean said that UNESCO data reports that currently less than 30 percent of scientific research in the world is carried out by women.

A UN report on the inclusion of women and girls in Stem, that is, in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, made at the beginning of the decade, it emphasizes that women have been Persistently underwater in several Stem fields And it warns that this disparity begins in the classrooms at an early age and covers areas as broad as research, the development of professional careers and access to jobs generated in these areas or the use made of the products developed in the disciplines in the disciplines Stem ”.

UN Women Mexico stressed that closing the gender gap in science requires to demolish stereotypes, promote behavior models that inspire girls, support women’s advance through specific programs and foster inclusive environments through policies and measures that promote inclusion , diversity and equality.

Regretted that women remain minority in many science areas, not due to lack of talent, but for stereotypes that limit their access and opportunities and said that It’s time to tear them down.

He explained that in the renewable energy sector women only represent 32 percent of working people and at the end of the first decade of the century, they barely represented a quarter of the degrees in engineering.

The Women’s Secretariat assured that The future of science is equal And in his networks he recognized Ángela Olazarán Laureano, Mexican winner of the Global Student Prize 2024, selected as the best student in the world.

In a video the Veracruz said that it is a passionate about science and technology, developing artificial intelligence projects And he told women and girls that This way can.