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Gender Equality in the Knowledge Society

Gender Equality in the Knowledge Society. National Assessments on Gender in Science, Technology and Innovation. Sophia Huyer , Executive Director, WISAT Senior Advisor, OWSD. First Phase (November 2011 – May 2012). Overall Findings:

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Gender Equality in the Knowledge Society

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  1. Gender Equality in the Knowledge Society National Assessments on Gender in Science, Technology and Innovation Sophia Huyer, Executive Director, WISAT Senior Advisor, OWSD

  2. First Phase (November 2011 – May 2012) Overall Findings: The knowledge society is failing to include women to an equal extent. In some cases, their inclusion is negligible. Gendered barriers to STI and technology create a large gender gap in the knowledge society that will not improve automatically with economic growth. Five countries in the developing world: Brazil, India, Indonesia, Korea, South Africa, USA and one region – EU National researchers collected qualitative and quantitative data to fill in the Gender Equality-Knowledge Society framework

  3. Country/region rankings

  4. GE&KS Framework

  5. Health

  6. Social status

  7. Economic status

  8. Access to resources

  9. Agency

  10. Opportunity & capability

  11. KS Decision Making

  12. Knowledge economy

  13. STI participation

  14. STI participation

  15. STI participation

  16. STI participation

  17. Key Findings Female participation in STI is characterised by: Approximate parity in S&E overall Alarmingly low representation in the science, technology and innovation fields Under-representation in engineering, physics and computer science — lower than 30% Declining representation in the labourforce

  18. Key Findings Female participation in STI is characterised by: Little sex-disaggregated data at the national level Less access to productive resources

  19. There is no simple solution • Female parity in the science, technology and innovation fields is tied to higher economic status; government and politics; economic, productive and technological resources; and policy implementation • Education is insufficient and needs to be supported by a multi-dimensional approach

  20. Country/region rankings

  21. Thank you. Women in Global Science and Technology (WISAT) Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) www.wigsat.org shuyer@wigsat.org

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