Could space science and technology be the tool to demolish the “gender ceiling” in Nigeria?
That’s the belief of a woman who was involved in the design and building of four satellites launched by the West African country.
Iroka Chidinma works for the National Space Research and Development Agency and is pursuing a PhD in atmospheric physics.
Back when Astronaut Scott Kelly was a military pilot in the navy, seeing a woman in his class would have been almost as common as “seeing a unicorn.”
At the UN to discuss the so-called “Space for Women” project, the retired United States astronaut, and official UN Champion for Space, shared his views on how to get more girls involved in science, technology, engineering and mathematics – known as STEM.
Earth observation technology can be a tool for women’s empowerment as it provides satellite imagery which can help with environmental monitoring: for example, in agriculture or with tracking infectious diseases.
That’s the view of Bolo Basuti, a research assistant at the Botswana International University of Science and Technology.
She participated in a recent event in New York organized by the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) called Space for Women.
Unequal pay and lack of paid parental leave holds women back in the world of work.
That’s the economic reality underpinning a meeting organized by UN Women and the Nordic Council of Ministers which took place at UN Headquarters in September.
Norway began offering paid parental leave to mothers for a full year in the 1980s, and fathers are entitled to 14 weeks.
The cultural heritage of Cuba’s vibrant music industry has enormous potential to enrich the world.
That’s the passionate view of Alejandro Rivera Rojas, Programme Officer for the Latin American and Caribbean division for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
A UN project currently under development aims to ensure women have a place in outer space.
The goal is to encourage more women and girls, particularly in developing countries, to pursue careers in STEM: that is, Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths; and to increase women’s involvement in the space sector.
The Space for Women project is an initiative by the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA).
Malala Yousafzai is continuing her fight for girls’ education, rights and empowerment, in her role as the youngest-ever UN Messenger of Peace.
She began speaking out for girls’ education aged 11, and after surviving an assassination attempt by Taliban extremists in her native Pakistan in 2012, she co-founded the Malala Fund along with her father.
This month she is due to begin her studies at Oxford University.
Rohingya women have “lived through real horrors:” UNFPA
UN chief: Saudi Arabian women’s right to drive “an important first step”
UN officials have welcomed Saudi Arabia’s decision to lift a ban prohibiting women from driving. The announcement was made on Tuesday and will come into effect in July 2018. In New York, Saudi Arabia’s UN ambassador broke the news to the General Assembly during a ceremony marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, observed annually on 26 September.
Millions of students in low- and middle-income countries face a “learning crisis” that is widening inequality, destroying opportunity and strangling economic growth.
That’s the stark conclusion of the World Development Report 2018, published on Tuesday by the World Bank, which is calling for greater action through “concrete policy steps” worldwide.
