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Supporting Women in Science, Technology and
Engineering in Latin America
Gloria Bonder June, 2007
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BRIDGING RESEARCH ,POLICIES INNOVATION AND
NETWORKING

GENDER EQUITY IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
WOMEN/GENDER SCIENCE
YOUTH/ GENDER/ICT
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Institute of Gender, Society and Policies FLACSO
Argentina
PARTNERS AND NETWORKS
UNITWIN UNESCO CHAIR Women, Science, Technology
and Water Sudan, Pakistan, Burkina Faso, Ivory
Coast , Morocco
ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America
Caribbean) INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME
Institute on Gender Health, Canadian
Institutes of Health Research IGH-CIHR
IDRC International Development
Research Centre
Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of Health, EE.UU
GKP Global Knowledge Partnership
Observatorio de la Salud de la Mujer.
Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo de España
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Latin America on its way to the Information
Society

• 76 of the LAC population is located in urban
  areas.
• Rapid socio- economic changes are increasingly
  affected by, and dependent on ICT use. However
  only a minority (7.8) of LAC citizens benefit
  from this progress.
• Few countries have been very active and
  successful in embracing new and emerging
  technologies (Brazil, Chile and Costa Rica
  technology engines
• Insufficient investment both public and private
  in STE development
• Slow integration of ICT in formal education, weak
  changes in methods and contents

• Women in ICT Industries
• 9 in medium- and high level jobs in information
  technology industries.
• 28.5 of computer programmers
• 26.9 of systems analysts
• 85 of data entry workers.
• (UNIFEM, 2000)

Women access to Internet is rapidly increasing
particularly in young population . THE BIG
CHALLENGE CONSUMERS?,CITIZENS? CREATORS,
INNOVATORS?
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Advances and Challenges in Latin American
Higher Education
Enrollment according to field of knowledge, 2002
Women in Higher Education, 2002
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Lights and Shadows
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Womens enrollment in Higher Education. Regional
average 54.4. Venezuela, Panama, and Uruguay
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Womens enrollment in Engineering Brazil 22,
Mexico 12, Uruguay 27.4, Argentina 17. Costa
Rica 19
Women in decision-making positions in ST.
(increase in number of Deans and U. Presidents.
Very low presence in research evaluating
committees) CONICET Argentina - Directory 8
members / 1 women Mexico 0, Brazil 3,1
Increase of female participation in traditional
male areas. Basic and Natural Sciences, Law,
Medicine 50or more
Increase in research and academic events related
to women and science, less on women and
technology.
Lack of statistics and gender indicators.
Creation of Networks of Women ST
Poor connection and collaboration between gender
researchers and activists, women in ST and
policy makers
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PRINCIPLES AND METHODOLOGY

• Interdisciplinary research
• Training mentoring (on line)

• Publication
• Consultancy
• Advocacy

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TWO MAIN STRATEGIES

• TRAINING MENTORING TRAINERS

• TRAINING MENTORING/COUCHING WOMEN SCIENTISTS

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RESEARCH

VIRTUAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING PROGRAM FOR LATIN
AMERICAN WOMEN RESEARCHERS IN BIOMEDICAL AND
HEALTH SCIENCES
NETWORKING
TRAINING MENTORING

• Workshop
• Career Development and
• transformative leadership
• Course
• Engendering health research
• Co-coordinated with Fogarty
• International
• Center, National Institutes of Health,
• U.S.A

Professional trajectories, choices and
capacity- building needs of Latin American
Women Researchers in Health Sciences In
partenrship with the Observatorio de Salud de
la Mujer, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo de
España
Creation of the Latin American Network of
Women Researchers in Health Sciences
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Caring, challenging, nurturing and collaborative
learning environment