08/07/2014 - Events, Projects
Join the first Gender & STEM Survey: it closes on September 30th
Reading time: 1 minuteGlobal Contact, the French National Point of Contact of the European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT) launched the first global online survey on Gender & STEM with the goal to map the orientation and employment of women and men in high tech and innovation.
The survey is supported by Orange and the global media networks FR24, RFI and Monte Carlo Doualiya and in 2014 available in French, English and Arabic. The ‘Gender and STEM 2014’ survey will be focused on developing comparisons between selected countries and geographic regions. More specifically, it will look into similarities and/or differences in STEM feminization between developed and underdeveloped countries.
Whether living in Europe, America, Africa, Asia or the Middle East... What are the key factors influencing orientation choices? What makes the difference?Are orientation choices equally gender-biased in the world? What is the added value of
studying STEM on employment level from one country to the other? How does this impact career paths and work / life balance? Are dual career couples enabling an improvement?
Lastly the survey will explore men’s / women’s perception of innovations.
Welcome to contribute to this great objective at: http://genderandstem.org/
It takes 6-7 min to complete the survey which is easily accessible from a PC, smartphone or a tablet computer. All the results will be available in December 2014.
Global Contact, France focuses on innovation as a catalyst for economic and social transformation and establishes reports in order to identify trends. To do so, every year Global Compact studies the status of young people and women in science and technology (education, employment). To raise interest and encourage more young people's involvement in these fields, GlobalContact holds since 2012 the Science Factor™ contest on Facebook for students in the last two years of high school, with the support of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
Global Contact has been carrying out the Mutationnelles™ study exclusively for Orange since 2009. The report covers education and employment women in the science and technology sectors in France and is based on data, some of it unpublished, from public sources (Eurostat, INSEE, French Ministry for Education) as well as private sources including the Mutationnelles online survey (1,200 participants) and the IESF study. It is the only of it’s kind to provide a perspective on both education and situation of women in the science and technology sectors, from training (secondary and post-secondary) through job market entry and careers.
- See more at: http://www.womenandtechnology.eu/digitalcity/projects/w4ict/boxedNewsEvent.jsp?dom=AAABECDQ&prt=BAAFLAFR&firt=AAAIXYRS&men=BAAFKZBY&smen=BAAFKZBY&fmn=BAAFLAFT#sthash.QXYegyMz.dpuf