{"id":25334,"date":"2021-02-11T18:49:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T17:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/?p=25334"},"modified":"2021-04-23T14:21:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:21:05","slug":"wfeo-inwes-statement-on-the-importance-of-women-in-advancing-the-sdgs-published-by-un-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wfeo.org\/wfeo-inwes-statement-on-the-importance-of-women-in-advancing-the-sdgs-published-by-un-women\/","title":{"rendered":"WFEO INWES Statement on the importance of women in advancing the SDGs published by UN Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIn celebration of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, 11 February 2021<\/strong>, WFEO is pleased to announce that the joint statement from INWES and WFEO was accepted by UN Women and is published on their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is the first time that a written statement has been made and accepted.<\/i><\/p>\n

The International Network for Women Engineers and Scientists (INWES)<\/a> and the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) together represent women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) across 100 nations. These two organizations are committed to attracting girls to undertake careers in STEM and play an important role in developing and supporting programmes that encourage girls to study the enabling subjects of science and mathematics in school. Our organizations encourage parents, teachers and counsellors to support girls to study and pursue careers in science or engineering and provides support and advice to industry and government to retain women in the workforce, support women in their STEM careers, encourage them to achieve leadership positions and celebrate their achievements.<\/p>\n

In the Statement, INWES and WFEO also reaffirm the conclusion relating to managing technological and digital change for women\u2019s economic empowerment and agrees that there is a need to support women\u2019s access, throughout their careers, for skills development and decent work in new and emerging fields, by expanding the scope of education and training opportunities especially in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), information and communications technology and encourage digital fluency. There is also a need to enhance women\u2019s and, girls\u2019 participation as users, content creators, employees, entrepreneurs, innovators and leaders in digital technologies and strengthen science and technology education policies and curricula, so that they are relevant to the needs of and benefit women and girls. It is also important to strengthen capacities of developing countries, so as to enable women to leverage science and technology for entrepreneurship and economic empowerment in the changing world of work.<\/p>\n

The Statement reaffirmed INWES and WFEO commitments to advancing the 2030 Agenda and increasing the participation of women in STEM careers is critical to achieving the United Nations SDGs, including to:<\/p>\n