The study highlighted that 75% of the people who graduate in careers related to education are women, just two points above the percentage in which women are located in the “health and wellness” professions.
Meanwhile, among the graduates of careers related to the social sciences, 60% correspond to women, but in engineering careers this figure drops to 32% and occupies only 20% in ICT professions (Information and Information Technology). Communication).
“Despite being the majority among those who graduate from universities, only 44% of the people who dedicate themselves to scientific research in Ibero-America are women,” the report detailed.
And he specified that: “In only three of the 20 countries that report data on R&D personnel, women represent more than 50%: Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela and Argentina.”
The proportion of female researchers in the fields of engineering and technology and agricultural sciences is “below 40% in all Ibero-American countries,” the study added.
Meanwhile, 46% of the Ibero-American publications in Scopus -a bibliographic database of abstracts and citations of scientific journal articles- had female authors and, according to the data collected in Portugal and Argentina, they participated in more than 50% of the articles.
Meanwhile, in countries such as Nicaragua, Peru, Chile, Honduras, Costa Rica, Mexico and Colombia they participated “in less than 40% of the total publications.”
Regarding the first levels of education, in Latin American countries the rate of completion of primary school for girls exceeds 90% in almost the entire region, completing this level more than their male peers.
Likewise, in most Latin American countries, women continue to be the ones who complete their secondary education the most with a regional average of 64% (7 points more than men), and they are located in the first place to Chile (88%) and in last to Guatemala (36%).
Source: Ambito
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