national assessments on gender in science, technology and innovation gender equality in the...

National Assessments on

Gender in Science, Technology

and Innovation

Gender Equality in the Knowledge Society

Sophia Huyer, Executive Director, WISAT

Senior Advisor, OWSD

 • 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

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.

Country/region rankings

GE&KS Framework

Health

Social status

Economic status

Access to resources

Agency

Opportunity & capability

KS Decision Making

Knowledge economy

STI participation

STI participation

STI participation

STI participation

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

Key Findings

Female participation in STI is characterised by:

• Little sex-disaggregated data at the national level

• Less access to productive resources

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

Country/region rankings

Thank you.

Women in Global Science and Technology (WISAT)Organization for Women in Science for the

Developing World (OWSD)

www.wigsat.orgshuyer@wigsat.org