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Latest items for ASR-DATA-1

March 30, 2024, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Lithuania
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"[There is a] high percentage of female researchers at universities and [an] increasing number of female students enrolling in previously male-dominated fields of study… [There is a] low number of women in leading academic positions" 10).
Feb. 20, 2024, 6:27 p.m.
Countries: D R Congo
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"[T]he rates of enrolment, retention and completion by women and girls at all levels of education, especially in science, technology, engineering and mathematics programmes [needs to increase]" (11). This can indicate that the enrollment levels are low (MV- coder comment).
Jan. 29, 2024, 5:50 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"[There is a] low percentage of women and girls who choose non-traditional fields of study and career paths, such as mechanical and electrical engineering [and a] low number of women professors" (10).
Jan. 16, 2024, 6:33 p.m.
Countries: Botswana
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"Fewer females continue to enrol in science and technology fields than males" (7). This suggests that there are probably fewer women in these fields as professionals (VMH - CODER COMMENT). In Table 4, titled "Participation of Women in the Court of Appeal and High Court, 2015," shows how men are incredibly under-represented in Court positions comapred to men. For Chief Justice, women were 0%, while men were 100%. For Presidents, women were 0% as well, while the men were 100% once again. For Judges, women were 24%, while men are 76% (27). In Table 5, titled "Participation of Women in the Magistrate Courts, 2012," shows that women domiante this field...more
Jan. 4, 2024, 10:41 a.m.
Countries: Singapore
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"The proportion of women lawyers continued to be healthy at 43 per cent in 2021. The proportion of women doctors increased from 40 per cent in 2016 to 42 per cent in 2020. Women made up 30 per cent of research scientists and engineers in 2019, up from 27 per cent in 2009. Since 2007, the rate of increase in the number of female scientists and engineers has consistently outpaced or matched that of their male counterparts. Between 2018 and 2019, the number of female research scientists and engineers grew faster at 8.0 per cent, compared to males at 6.9 per cent" (25). "The proportion of females among employed residents...more
Aug. 24, 2023, 1:08 a.m.
Countries: Cape Verde
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"[G]irls [continue to be underrepresented] in traditionally male-dominated fields of study, in particular in higher education, in which study choices remain stereotyped" (8).
Aug. 8, 2023, 8:30 p.m.
Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"[P]articipation of girls in apprenticeships, crafts, science and technology [needs to increase]" (9). This indicates that choices are still stereotyed and not modified to be gender-neutral (MV-coder comment).
Aug. 8, 2023, 12:20 p.m.
Countries: Senegal
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"The involvement of women in decision-making bodies has resulted in major progress, including, most notably:... In 2010, women accounted for 17.29 percent of the judiciary…"(6).
July 25, 2023, 10:44 a.m.
Countries: Cambodia
Variables: GP-DATA-6, ASR-DATA-1

"[T]he number of women in the judiciary and providing systematic capacity-building to judges, prosecutors, police officers and other law enforcement officials [needs to increase]" (4).
July 21, 2023, 11:58 a.m.
Countries: Azerbaijan
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"Women have a dominant position in some professions (such as education, healthcare and others). The gender analysis of employment data of the population shows that the share of female workers in 2017 was 47,6% in education, 53,0% in healthcare and social services and 26,2% in recreation, entertainment and art areas" (10). "Women are also broadly present in the area of science in Azerbaijan. 54% of students in master course, 51% of PhDs lecturing at higher educational institutions and 46% of Doctor of Science are women. Currently, 1215 (56%) out of 2168 doctoral candidates are women" (19-20).
July 10, 2023, 9:26 p.m.
Countries: Maldives
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"The courts have gone from 7 in 2016 to 9 female judges as of 2018, accounting for 4.8% of Judges nation-wide. At present, 40.16% of employees working in the judiciary, and 40.67% of court officers are women. Over 55% of the technical staff in the PGO and 56% of all lawyers nation-wide are women. Furthermore, 66.67% of Attorneys at AGO are also female." (18). "Traditional streaming of young women at the higher education level continues, with them predominating in the social sciences, as compared to young men tend to dominate in the sciences, engineering, IT and in vocational training. Interestingly, Commerce and Law Faculties are increasingly seeing equal numbers of...more
June 20, 2023, 9:30 p.m.
Countries: Nicaragua
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"Through its National Institute of Technology, Nicaragua has been running technical education programmes to provide women and men with technical skills. Women’s participation in these programmes has increased, notably in specialisms that were previously open only to men, in particular in the industrial, construction, agricultural and forestry sectors." (7-8). "The Gender Commission of the Supreme Court has been established. It is composed of the Court’s five female judges and the gender secretariat and is responsible for implementing the gender equality policy. A greater number of public defenders have been made available to users of the justice system and have served 186,791 women. Training on gender-sensitive human rights and development has...more
June 14, 2023, 7:56 p.m.
Countries: Bolivia
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"[I]n the elections for the high authorities of the judiciary and particularly the agricultural and environmental courts held in 2017, out of the 5 members of the plenary of the Agricultural and Environmental Court, for the first time 3 are women. Indeed, in 2019 one of them presided over the Court" (23).
March 31, 2023, 2:31 p.m.
Countries: Egypt
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"[W]omen and girls tend to be concentrated in traditionally female-dominated fields of study and are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics" (9).
March 18, 2023, 10:20 p.m.
Countries: Ethiopia
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"Within the judiciary, at the federal first instance courts, women account for 43.4 per cent of the judges. Similarly, at the federal high court, women account for 21.3 per cent of the judges. At the Federal Supreme Court there are seven women judges (17.5 per cent). While these numbers show that the proportion of women has increased compared to the previous reporting period, the representation of women in the judiciary remain low. Within the Federal executive branch, women’s representation stood at 15.5 per cent at higher level and 22 per cent at middle level positions" (12). "In 2014/15, the share of females was 30.1 per cent in the fields of...more
Feb. 22, 2023, 1:10 p.m.
Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: ERBG-DATA-5, ERBG-DATA-6, ASR-DATA-1

“A little over half of self-employed workers in Bulgaria are educated to the upper secondary level, and 32% hold a tertiary level degree. Self-employed women were more likely than self-employed workers in any other groups to have completed tertiary education. This data confirm findings of an earlier nation-wide study that the group of women entrepreneurs had a higher share of people with higher education. Relatively few self-employed workers held only a basic education compared to the EU average. The Roma population is likely to be overrepresented in this last category, including Roma women who display high rates of early school dropout” (12).
Feb. 22, 2023, 10:59 a.m.
Countries: Bulgaria
Variables: ASR-PRACTICE-1, ASR-LAW-1, ASR-DATA-1

"(Testimony of Female Business Owner) “Right now 20% of the students in our IT career training programs at Telerik Academy are women – twice as many compared to the Academy’s earlier years. I don’t think there are challenges for women who work in IT. The challenge is to attract women to the sector, which I think should start very early on”, Mechkova explains. There are, however, some positive indications in this direction as well – Telerik Academy School offers classes to children. According to her, girls now make up to 30% of the young students, in some classes even 40% – a tendency that will positively impact the sector in...more
Feb. 4, 2023, 6:14 p.m.
Countries: Namibia
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"At University level, more females graduate than males. The number of female graduates in traditionally male dominated courses such as Medicine, Engineering and other hard sciences has also increased exponentially in the last few years." (12). Table 10 titled 'Women in the Judiciary' looks at the amount of female participation in varying positions which include Registrars / Chief Justice, President of the Court, Judges, and Magistrates with 75% of Resitrars/Chief Justices, 33.3% of President of the Courts, 20.8% of judges, and 49.5% of magistrates are women. (27). "Institutions of higher learning have in recent years recorded an increase in enrolment of courses by females in fields which were historically male...more
June 14, 2022, 5:24 p.m.
Countries: Denmark
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"More women than men complete a higher education and almost the same number of men and women achieve a Ph.D. Although the share of women in academia has increased in recent years, only about one third of researchers are female. In 2017, the share of female full professors was 22.2 percent (Table 6, Annex 1). University management has the key responsibility for increasing the number of female researchers and for ensuring good and equal conditions for recruitment, promotion and retention of both male and female researchers" (19). "In 2013, Independent Research Fund Denmark organised a conference on Gender in research. An element in this conference was to follow up on...more
March 9, 2022, 8:57 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"In the Universities, women overtook men during 80’s, in Faculties, such as Law, being mainly chosen by women (since this allows them to compete for the access to the judiciary)" (57). "Women are also recuperating the educational disadvantage in the field of new technologies, a field traditionally attributed to men. However, the women’s presence in scientific Faculties, such as Engineering, remains low. There is an average of 18.4 women out of 100 freshmen. Such situation reduces chances for the women of getting hired by the most advanced IT companies. Therefore, as for scientific and technical positions, gender stereotypes persist in many companies...Needless to say, the number of women scientists remains...more
Jan. 6, 2022, 12:09 p.m.
Countries: Somalia
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"There is no percentage of lawyers, bankers, doctors, or other professionals that are women. Women make up a large percentage of nurses, but very few are in the law, bank, or engineering field" (1).
Sept. 8, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"There was a widespread shortage of judges, primarily in insecure areas, leading to the adjudication of many cases through informal, traditional mediation. A shortage of women judges, particularly outside of Kabul, limited access to justice for women. Many women are unable to use the formal justice system because cultural norms preclude their engagement with male officials. During the year only 257 of 2,029, or 13 percent, of judges were women, a slight increase from 2018. The formal justice system is stronger in urban centers, closer to the central government, and weaker in rural areas. In rural areas lacking physical space for judges or prosecutors to operate and adequate security protection,...more
Aug. 27, 2021, 3:04 p.m.
Countries: United States
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"...For example, in the US, women make up 21% of undergraduates and 20% of Ph.D.s [6]…" (para 2)
Aug. 27, 2021, 3:04 p.m.
Countries: Iran
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"...In Muslim-majority countries, such as Iran, for example, women make up more than 60% of students studying for physics undergraduate and master’s degrees and 47% of Ph.D.s [7]…" (para 2).
July 21, 2021, 11:24 p.m.
Countries: Kuwait
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"Kuwait has been shaken to its core by the heinous kidnap and murder of 32-year-old mother of two Farah Akbar in the district of Sabah Al-Salem in Kuwait City. Not only were people shocked and outraged that such a cold-blooded crime took place during the holy month of Ramadan, they were infuriated to learn that the man accused of murdering her was someone Farah and her older sister, lawyer Dana Akbar, had previously filed complaints against, however the police did not take them seriously" (Para 1) This suggests that there are women lawyers in Kuwait (CLM-CODER COMMENT). "Activists, lawyers, and academics in Kuwait say that the failure to protect women...more
July 21, 2021, 10:30 p.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"She will be working alongside jurist Halima Ibrahim Abderrahmane, from the western town of Gharyan, who takes the justice portfolio, and Mabrouka Touki, an academic from the southern Fezzan region, who has a degree in nuclear physics and will head the culture ministry" (Para 13).
June 25, 2021, 1:32 p.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"Results found there has been a 366% increase in young females taking on apprenticeships in construction and engineering in the past five years. For course starters in 2019/20, there were 10,170 females in construction and a further 45,010 enrolling in engineering" (para 3-4). "Leading the trade revolution for women are painters and decorators. This job accounts for 33% of all women with a trade, helping customers turn their homes and businesses into spaces to be proud of. In second place are plumbers - a skill that takes a lot of training and full accreditation and 28.38% of women in the trade have put in the commitment and are now fixing...more
June 9, 2021, 8:43 p.m.
Countries: Poland
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"A very significant group of fields of study from the point of view of their feminization is health care and social welfare. An exception in this group, are emergency medical services, where over a half of graduates in 2005-2010 were men. On the other hand, the most feminized fields are: obstetrics (99 per cent), nursing (97 per cent) and social work (92 per cent). A clear overrepresentation of women may also be noticed among graduates of biology – 84%. Conversely, the opposite tendency may be observed for technical studies such as: automatics and robotics, electrotechnical engineering, mechanics and machine building – in the 2009/2010 academic year women accounted for less...more
April 26, 2021, 11:49 a.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"In the Universities, women overtook men during 80’s, in Faculties, such as Law, being mainly chosen by women (since this allows them to compete for the access to the judiciary)" (57). "Women are also recuperating the educational disadvantage in the field of new technologies, a field traditionally attributed to men. However, the women’s presence in scientific Faculties, such as Engineering, remains low. There is an average of 18.4 women out of 100 freshmen. Such situation reduces chances for the women of getting hired by the most advanced IT companies. Therefore, as for scientific and technical positions, gender stereotypes persist in many companies...Needless to say, the number of women scientists remains...more
Oct. 24, 2020, 5:58 p.m.
Countries: Austria
Variables: ASR-DATA-1

"In 2010, 18 percent of lawyers were female."