{"id":5986,"date":"2021-06-16T15:51:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T13:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/?p=5977"},"modified":"2021-06-16T15:51:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T13:51:54","slug":"iniciativas-para-fomentar-la-vocacion-cientifica-femenina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/blog\/iniciativas-para-fomentar-la-vocacion-cientifica-femenina\/","title":{"rendered":"7 INITIATIVES TO PROMOTE WOMEN'S SCIENTIFIC VOCATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">STEM education and its workforce seems to be led by men, but there is a leading force claiming its place in the history of science, and one that is needed today more than ever: women.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the study by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/reports\/global-gender-gap-report-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Gender Gap Report 2021<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> According to the World Economic Forum, only 17% of women are enrolled in university studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are seven initiatives whose mission is to increase this percentage, to make women who are leaders in the sector more visible, and to fight so that in the future, women in the sector will be able to <\/span><b>STEM break the gender gap.&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS<\/b><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><b> The Search Foundation<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Created by the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in Physics from Yale University.<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/jedidahislerphd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jedidah Isler<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The initiative is fighting for women to have their place in STEAM through this initiative, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardstem.com\/serch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Search Foundation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in which she develops a series of talks with women focused on STEM subjects. Her goal: to achieve social justice in the USA through the use of science and technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><b> Girls in Tech<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Created by<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/adrianagascoigne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adriana Gascoigne<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with a degree in <\/span><b>Sociology and Economics,<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/girlsintech.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Girls in Tech<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a non-profit organisation, of which she is also the CEO. This organisation helps to educate and <\/span><b>empowering women's talent in the field of new technologies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Gascoigne's CV is splendid and his positions include: VP of Marketing at SecondMarket; CMO of QwikCart, an online shopping startup, as well as advisor to technology companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><b> Girls Who Code<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/girlswhocode.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Girls Who Code<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the organisation that fights to prevent the gender gap in technology around the world, is the brainchild of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/reshma-saujani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reshma Saujani<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. A lawyer and activist, she was the first Indian American woman to run for Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was his campaign that got him started <\/span><b>Girls Who Code<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She is also a member of the International Women's Engineering Council (IWEC), to encourage women in engineering. As such, Saujani leads campuses and conferences, as well as writing several books to help girls and women find their place in the world of engineering. <\/span><b>digital world and programming.<\/b><\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><b> TechBridge<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techbridge.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Techbridge<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> seeks to inspire and<\/span><b> introducing girls to STEM.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Created by<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/linda-kekelis-50796635\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Linda Kekelis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project not only works with them, but also with their family members or teachers, who also have an important role to play in ending the <\/span><b>gender gap<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in this education. Linda Kekelis has a PhD in Special Education and studies in Linguistics.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>SPANISH INITIATIVES<\/b><\/h2>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><b> IMMUNE Dialogues | IMMUNE Technology Institute<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IMMUNE Dialogues was born as the initiative of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mvillasolmeda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monica Villas<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> e<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/proximos-eventos\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IMMUNE Technology Institute<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to share <\/span><b>experiences of<\/b> <b>inspirational WOMEN <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and thus support diversity and gender equality in the world of technology and its labour market. As a monthly event, both face-to-face and online, it brings together women from different generations and levels of experience with a common passion: <\/span><b>Technology and the future<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. You can see all the events on his channel<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCczqnLtM1FJGZ7CdWW2EizQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Youtube<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li><b> Tech Women<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mujerestech.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tech Women<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a non-profit association created in early 2015 with the aim of giving visibility to women in the digital sector, promoting scientific and technological vocations among young women, and serving as a platform to establish a network among women professionals in the sector in Spain. Founded by<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cristinaaranda-businessdevelopment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cristina Aranda<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> y<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/saralvarellos\/?originalSubdomain=es\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sara Alvarellos<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is already a reference in continuous growth.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li><b> Inspire Steam<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inspirasteam.net\/conoce-el-proyecto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inspire Steam<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a project for the promotion of scientific-technological vocation among girls, based on awareness-raising and guidance actions, given by professional women from the world of research, science and technology. The heart of the project is mentoring, whereby the mentors, on a voluntary basis, bring their day-to-day lives closer to girls through 6 work sessions during school hours. Promoted by the University of Deusto, it is supported by a number of institutions, including<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.innobasque.eus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">innobasque<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> y<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cionet.com\/cionet-spain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CIONET<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La educaci\u00f3n STEM y su sector laboral parece estar liderado por los hombres, pero hay una fuerza de liderazgo reclamando su puesto en la historia de la ciencia, y que adem\u00e1s, se necesita hoy m\u00e1s que nunca: las mujeres.&nbsp; Seg\u00fan el estudio de Global Gender Gap Report 2021 del World Economic Forum, tan solo el [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immune.institute\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}