SciGirls - Empowering girls in science through astronomy Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/flagship-3/scigirls-empowering-girls-in-science-through-astronomy/ Astronomy for a better world! Fri, 19 May 2023 14:13:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg SciGirls - Empowering girls in science through astronomy Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/flagship-3/scigirls-empowering-girls-in-science-through-astronomy/ 32 32 SciGirls Empowers Rural Girls As Leaders and STEM Advocates https://astro4dev.org/scigirls-empowers-rural-girls-as-leaders-and-stem-advocates/ Fri, 19 May 2023 14:12:48 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=27775 The SciGirls project aims to improve, in the long term, the gender gap in science, and the current lack of girls in STEM, by empowering secondary school girls from rural areas and their female science teachers using astronomy and its multidisciplinarity. The team organised a capacity-building workshop for 30 participants from different regions of Ethiopia, [...]

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]]> Overview: SciGirls – Empowering girls in science through astronomy https://astro4dev.org/overview-scigirls-empowering-girls-in-science-through-astronomy/ Mon, 13 Dec 2021 15:17:48 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=24346 The world faces a massive gender gap in science that is well documented (UNESCO UIS 2019). In Ethiopia, only ~ 13% of scientists are women, plus, girls avoid choosing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields mainly due to the lack of information and support. SciGirls project aims to improve in the long term the [...]

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