This February and the beginning of March in our new reality must be a better kind of commemoration for the woman she deserves; It should be a prelude to a daily practice of lasting recognition and respect that contributes to raising awareness, disseminating and strengthening government policies, and seeking standardization as educational and awareness-raising tools on the importance of gender equality and recognition of women’s contribution to national development.
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On February 11, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science was celebrated. The fifteenth Mexican Women’s Day and the next March 8th are International Women’s Day. About this, a little history:
Since 1961, Mexican Women’s Day has been set up in order to raise awareness of the challenges women face and celebrate their value in the fight for equality and their contribution to the development of our country. Years later, on March 8, 1975, at the initiative of the United Nations, International Women’s Day was celebrated for the first time as a day of struggle for equality, participation and empowerment in all areas of life.society. Similarly, in 2016, with the aim of full and equal access to and participation in science and the achievement of gender equality, this international organization declared the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, thus recognizing their role as agents of change in the scientific and technological fields. social communication.
And while positive results have been achieved since then, they haven’t been enough. According to UNESCO data, women scientists represent 33% of the total number of people conducting research in the world.
In this direction, in Mexico, the presence of women in the fields of science and technology has grown. According to the data of the National Scholars System (2021), 13,406 members occupy 38% of the total 35,178 members of the Register. With regard to the fields of knowledge, there is a greater presence in the fields of social sciences and humanities than in the natural and exact fields.
In the same sense, according to the records of Mexico’s national education system, last year professional women graduated from jobs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields with a rate of 13.5%. In terms of postgraduate scholarships, they represented 46% of national scholarships and 41% of scholarships abroad.
However, there are still barriers that maintain the segregation of women that slow down their performance and impede their participation in strengthening the scientific community, however, the Mayan Train Project today (for example) represents the coordination of educational policies and the generation of a new generation. Opportunities for women, as well as more employment and political inclusion, from the perspective of equality and equity, and the promotion of the rights of indigenous women, as happens in the Sisbichén Materials Bank, where 20% of the 130 people working there are women, in contrast to other six-year periods where a woman has worked Only one in this area (Viviana Cabrera Gómez).
However, admission to better study opportunities is not enough to join the field of work, but to seek equity in personal and team development and to integrate not only operational work but management and senior management.
Thus, the goal in pedagogical teaching should be to ensure an integrated work process in which alternative activities are used without strict assignment of gender roles, which in turn promotes dialogue and allows work in a peaceful environment that recognizes all viewpoints through the generation. Agreements and environments that stimulate the critical, innovative and purposeful thinking of girls and young women, and the thinking essential to the full and humane practice of science and technology.
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