Science, Technology and Gender: An International Report

Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies

For over thirty years now, the United Nations General Assembly and the UN Economic and Social Commission have emphasized inequalities and disparities in the educational opportunities open to women and girls, and in women’s access to training and the labour market. Since the 1976–85 United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, which directed particular attention at the role of women in science and technology, the call for action related to science, technology and gender has steadily intensified. In 2000 gender equality became one of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

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