Post by account_disabled on Feb 27, 2024 4:50:44 GMT
Science historian Margaret W. Rossiter named the “ Matilda Effect ” in honor of Matilda Joslyn Gage, a women's rights activist. The “ Matilda Effect ” is the name given to the discrimination that many scientists and researchers have suffered throughout history, who were denied the authorship of their discoveries, attributing it to their research colleagues. An injustice that has prevented the work of women in the field of research from being known and recognized as it deserves and has led to their absence in most textbooks. One more reason that explains why, according to UNESCO, the percentage of women in scientific careers barely reaches 30%. This is why the NoMoreMatildas campaign promoted by the Association of Women Researchers and Technologists (AMIT) is so convenient and successful, aimed at recovering female references with the aim of promoting the scientific vocation among adolescent girls and boys. Because the current educational gender gap that we suffer from is alarming, and is reflected in the fact that each academic year the proportion of women in Mathematics, Computer Science and Technology (STEAM) falls, when it is known that the economic and social progress of the future of our country and The rest of the countries in the world are undergoing technological transformation.
In all areas, and the productive sector and the labor market are increasingly demanding more people with profiles in these disciplines. A few weeks ago, on February 11, the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training presented a study, x-ray of the gender gap in STEAM training, with the aim of promoting female talent. The investigation has been directed by the Equality Unit of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training. Among the many data, in the 290 pages of the x-ray on the educational trajectory Guatemala Mobile Number List of girls and women in Spain, the strong gap that exists between women and men stands out, and that is wider every year, in the choice of studies such as Mathematics , Computer Science and a good part of engineering and technological degrees. Stereotypes and cultural prejudices continue to be maintained, as indicated by the fact that 50% of parents imagine their sons working in a scientific and technical area, while only 20% imagine their daughters. In the -academic year, the percentage of female students in higher vocational training degrees in IT was close to 27%, while in -, the last available, it was . In 1985, 30% of the students studying Computer Science were women, now it is only 12%. A decrease that also occurs in the Mathematics major in which female students have gone from being just over half to representing.
A similar reality has been experienced in university studies of Physics, Statistics, Telecommunications and Aeronautics in the last two decades, in which the participation of women has also decreased very considerably. This is a deficit that was already noted in 1995 by the United Nations World Conference on Women held in Beijing, and which established the need to correct the low participation of women in new technologies and information societies because, it warned, , represents a technological and digital gap that women suffer in relation to men, which also makes it difficult to achieve full labor equality for women. Stereotypes and cultural prejudices continue to be maintained, as indicated by the fact that 50% of parents imagine their sons working in a scientific and technical area, while only 20% imagine their daughters, when repeated PISA studies show us that science performances of boys and girls in schools are similar. It is still worrying that this gap continues to be maintained after so many years and powerful public equality policies, changes in educational models and with a society much more aware of equal rights and opportunities than in the past. We hope that this March 8 will also serve to promote campaigns such as the “Matilda Effect” undertaken by the Association of Women Researchers and Technologists, as well as initiatives such as “ Girls and women.
In all areas, and the productive sector and the labor market are increasingly demanding more people with profiles in these disciplines. A few weeks ago, on February 11, the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training presented a study, x-ray of the gender gap in STEAM training, with the aim of promoting female talent. The investigation has been directed by the Equality Unit of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training. Among the many data, in the 290 pages of the x-ray on the educational trajectory Guatemala Mobile Number List of girls and women in Spain, the strong gap that exists between women and men stands out, and that is wider every year, in the choice of studies such as Mathematics , Computer Science and a good part of engineering and technological degrees. Stereotypes and cultural prejudices continue to be maintained, as indicated by the fact that 50% of parents imagine their sons working in a scientific and technical area, while only 20% imagine their daughters. In the -academic year, the percentage of female students in higher vocational training degrees in IT was close to 27%, while in -, the last available, it was . In 1985, 30% of the students studying Computer Science were women, now it is only 12%. A decrease that also occurs in the Mathematics major in which female students have gone from being just over half to representing.
A similar reality has been experienced in university studies of Physics, Statistics, Telecommunications and Aeronautics in the last two decades, in which the participation of women has also decreased very considerably. This is a deficit that was already noted in 1995 by the United Nations World Conference on Women held in Beijing, and which established the need to correct the low participation of women in new technologies and information societies because, it warned, , represents a technological and digital gap that women suffer in relation to men, which also makes it difficult to achieve full labor equality for women. Stereotypes and cultural prejudices continue to be maintained, as indicated by the fact that 50% of parents imagine their sons working in a scientific and technical area, while only 20% imagine their daughters, when repeated PISA studies show us that science performances of boys and girls in schools are similar. It is still worrying that this gap continues to be maintained after so many years and powerful public equality policies, changes in educational models and with a society much more aware of equal rights and opportunities than in the past. We hope that this March 8 will also serve to promote campaigns such as the “Matilda Effect” undertaken by the Association of Women Researchers and Technologists, as well as initiatives such as “ Girls and women.