He International Day of Girls in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) It is held every year with the aim of promoting areas and opportunities for girls and young people to become interested in and get involved in careers or professions related to technologies.
First of all, we must say that the initiative highlights an indisputable gender digital divide and the need for the articulation of the Statethe companies and the communities to reduce it.
At the same time we must consider that when we talk about digital dividesWe are not only referring to the difficulties accessing devices or even to a Internet connectionbut also to how complex it can be to participate in the development of these technologiesto access and stay in fields of training and to participate actively and democratically in these transformation processes.
Definitely the digitization of our daily lives and the profound changes that they imply in our societies, propose new challenges in work environments that increasingly require more and better technology skills and knowledge.
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But why are we talking about girls? First of all we understand that the childhood It is an important moment in the constitution of the subjectivities of people. The stereotypes and assigned roles according to gender, in addition to other factors, have an unavoidable impact on the future elections of boys and girls.
Let’s review some data. In 2019, a study by Grow – gender and work, Chicos.Net and Aula Abierta revealed that the Four. Five% of the teachers of primary level considered that there was a performance difference in areas of technology according to gender, and 81% that this difference favored the males.
In 2021, Grow – gender and work presented an analysis of the advertising directed at girls and boys broadcast on children’s television channels. The analysis showed that the 39% of advertising directed at girls were linked with “beauty and romance” and the 30% with “friendship and family care”and only the 7% with “Professions, sports, education”. In contrast, those addressed to men were referred to in a 75% to the actionthe aggressiveness wave adventure and the 25% to the social game. No male-targeted ads included friendship and family care, beauty, or romance categories.
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We can outline some interpretations regarding this situation, but one of them is that throughout history stereotypes have consolidated men as source of knowledge, power and objectivityand placed women in the role of caregivers. This situation also becomes more complex and deepens from the discrimination and the unequal opportunities that cause the intersection between gender and other factors such as racialitythe social classthe disabilityamong other.
At the same time, part of this problem is the constant invisibility of scientists, philosophers and artists who have made fundamental contributions to humanity and who even today remain unrecognized, causing the lack of representation and ”role models” for the new generations of engineers, technicians and technology leaders.
as reported UNGlobally, women currently represent only the 35% in the races of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). At the same time, they occupy less than a third of the jobs in the technologies and they are only the 22% of people employed in areas of artificial intelligence (AI).
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At Grow- gender and work, as a civil organization, we get involved with other organizations that today can make a difference by training, hiring and encouraging women to be part of the technology industry. For this, we carry out diagnoses, evaluations and design work plans that promote work environments free of stereotypes and discrimination, with a focus on diversity and the integration of the gender perspective in all its processes. The time to make a difference is today, so that girls and women have more opportunities in a context of constant changes thanks to technology and innovation.
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