Education, especially STEM education, has been one of key focus areas of the G20 EMPOWER Alliance. India’s G20 EMPOWER Presidency remains committed to taking forward empowerment of women through a solid foundation in education. A focused effort to increase and sustain women representation in STEM is significant since it paves the way for gender equality and respect for women’s rights and provides them economic security.
This G20 EMPOWER Working Group on STEM delves on a five-pillar approach – which is integrative and holistic – to increase and sustain women representation in STEM. These five-pillar are as below:
- 1 Expanding the Funnel at the Base of the Pyramid
- 2 Fix the Leaky Pipeline in Professional Spaces
- 3 Women-led Tech Entrepreneurship, New Work Models
- 4 Social Mindset Changes
- 5 Policy and Governance
The Working Group believes that there is a need for realigning the ecosystem – in terms of qualifying, hiring and retaining women. This can be done by building allies and bringing together stakeholders from all sections of the society. An attempt has been made to align the solutions to the identified five pillars.
CONVENOR
Anandi Iyer
Director, Fraunhofer Office, India
Chairperson, FICCI Women in Science and Entrepreneurship (WISE)
Pagliuca Mariella
Gender Equality Department, Italy
Manon van Beek
CEO, Tennet , The Netherlands
Gina Diez-Barroso
CEO, Diarq Holdings Founder, President, CENTRO University Founder, Dalia Empower, Mexico
Rochelle White
Assistant Secretary, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet , Office for Women
Carolina Castro
Board Member/Argentina's G20 Empower Representative
Lisa Harvey-Smith
Women in STEM Ambassador, Australia Professor of Practice, University of New South Wales
Tripti Gurha
Joint Secretary,MoWCD
S. Anantha Ramakrishna
Director, CSIR-CSIO
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
Former Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) (Science & Technology)
Ruby Pawankar
MD, Ph.D, FRCP, FAAAAI President, APAAACI, 2018-2023 Executive Director Dept. of Pediatrics Nippon Medical School
Dr. Anita Gupta
Scientist 'G', Adviser & Head Climate Change and Clean Energy Mission Innovation Department of Science and Technology (DST) Ministry of Science and Technology ,Govt. of India
Charumathy Srinivasan
VP Engineering, Microsoft