Post by account_disabled on Feb 25, 2024 4:59:17 GMT
Since Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in 1903 to date, only 17 women have won the Nobel Prize in the categories of Physics, Chemistry and Medicine , a very low number compared to the almost 600 men who have obtained it. There are many reasons for this gender gap in science as well as technology. Some of them are discrimination, low-quality education or the stereotypes and expectations that society generates in women. In Latin America (as in the rest of the world) this gender inequality exists, an example of this is that in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina - countries that are considered the largest economies in the region - less than 30% of the people who They work in the STEM sector (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and are women.
Regarding education, more than 50% of people who are enrolled in higher level programs are women, however, in physics, mathematics and computing careers, which in many ways guarantee better quality jobs, this number decreases. at 15%. To support the reduction of the gender gap in these areas, Mercado Libre —an Argentine company dedicated to electronic commerce—created the America Cell Phone Number List Conectadas program with which it seeks to bring together adolescent women from Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay and Peru to technology. Training adolescents in technological skills This initiative was carried out in collaboration with the organizations Girls in Technology , a civil society that seeks to close the gender gap in Argentina, and {reprograma} a social startup that teaches programming to women in the city of Sao Paulo in Brazil.
The project consists of a free and immersive training program that seeks to bring adolescents between 14 and 18 years old to the world of technology, so that they can acquire tools that will help them create innovative solutions to problems that they identify locally , and that often They tend to be similar in the different countries of the region. Conectadas began activities at the beginning of this year and has trained more than 1,200 Latin American adolescents in different digital and technological skills such as: Problem resolution. Analysis of data. Programming. User experience (UX research). Business development. Marketing digital.
Regarding education, more than 50% of people who are enrolled in higher level programs are women, however, in physics, mathematics and computing careers, which in many ways guarantee better quality jobs, this number decreases. at 15%. To support the reduction of the gender gap in these areas, Mercado Libre —an Argentine company dedicated to electronic commerce—created the America Cell Phone Number List Conectadas program with which it seeks to bring together adolescent women from Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay and Peru to technology. Training adolescents in technological skills This initiative was carried out in collaboration with the organizations Girls in Technology , a civil society that seeks to close the gender gap in Argentina, and {reprograma} a social startup that teaches programming to women in the city of Sao Paulo in Brazil.
The project consists of a free and immersive training program that seeks to bring adolescents between 14 and 18 years old to the world of technology, so that they can acquire tools that will help them create innovative solutions to problems that they identify locally , and that often They tend to be similar in the different countries of the region. Conectadas began activities at the beginning of this year and has trained more than 1,200 Latin American adolescents in different digital and technological skills such as: Problem resolution. Analysis of data. Programming. User experience (UX research). Business development. Marketing digital.