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Equity and Diversity

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  • According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, “Women account for a minority of the world’s researchers”
  • “Less than 30% of the world’s researchers are women”

  • “Women are missing from the ranks of higher education and research”

  • According to the World Bank, “Gender equality is a critical component of economic growth”. However, when looking at the Women, Business and the Law index, Only six countries have equal rights for men and women according to the “Women, Business and the Law 2019” report (Table 2, page 9)

  • A new global study on Global Media Monitoring has found that only 19% of the science and technology experts highlighted in the media are women.

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