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Discussion held to promote women in STEM

Author: Marija Šestan

ZAGREB, March 3 (Hina) - As many as 70% of respondents covered by a survey about the involvement of women and men in science connect only men with this field, and the findings of the survey were presented at a panel discussion on Friday in the European Parliament's information office in Zagreb.

The engagement of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) was the topic of the discussion organised ahead of International Women's Day, observed on 8 March, and participants in the event were informed that the European average of women in STEM stands at a mere 29%.

The head of the EP information office in Zagreb, Violeta Stanicic, said that in Latin America on the other hand, the portion of women in STEM was 45%.

For instance, in India, women account for 30% of IT specialists, and in Europe there are half as many.

Although more than a half of those who enrol in colleges in the EU are women, a mere 15% of senior executives in the science sector are women. Women scientists make slower headway in careers, too.

The survey, which was conducted in 34 countries worldwide, shows that 70% of those polled perceive science as a field exclusively for men, Stanicic said.

Therefore, many initiatives have been launched by the European Parliament to strike a gender balance in science.

Some of the positive statistics in Croatia show that 57% of those who earn doctoral degrees are women. As many as 49% of professors and lecturers at institutions of tertiary education are women.

Broken down by gender, 3,012 employees at Rudjer Boskovic Institute are women and 208 are men.

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