strategy
Increasing involvement of women in science and technology
Synonyms:
Supporting women in science and engineering Context:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends promoting and strengthening the role of women as full partners in the science and technology disciplines.
Implementation:
In the case of UNESCO this involves activities designed to overcome the obstacles to women's access to scientific and technological training and to careers in science and technology. This necessitates: intensification of vocational guidance in primary and secondary schools; promotion and extension, through effective incentives, of access by women to careers in science and technology; encouragement of women to take up scientific careers through advanced, training and retraining in various disciplines; and the provision of greater opportunities for women in the fields of technology.
The Women in Computing Academic Resource (WCAR) List is a compilation of colleges and universities that have formal and/or informal programmes for encouraging/retaining women in computer science. It is an officially sponsored activity of the ACM Committee on the Status of Women. The WCAR list identifies "women-friendly" academic programmes in computer science,thereby providing female computer science students important information regarding positive encouraging environments.
Broader:
Enhancing science and technology trainingImproving skill base of womenExpanding social participation of women Narrower:
Increasing education for females in scienceRecruiting women for environmental researchNetworking women engineersReducing discrimination against women by the sciencesConsulting women on improving environmentally sound technology Facilitates:
Reducing sexist scienceResearching women's studiesStrengthening science and technology to protect vulnerable groupsPromoting awareness of relationship between gender and science and technology Facilitated by:
Establishing environmentally sound technology training for women Values:
IncreaseInvolvement Organizations:
International Council for Science United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World Intergovernmental Informatics Programme Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Women in Science and Technology in Africa Network American Physical Society Women in Global Science and Technology Network International Political Science Research Committee on Women and Developing Nations Women into Science and Technology Research Subjects:
Society → WomenTechnology → Technology
Technology → Engineering
Science → Science
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
