Reasons for low percentage contribution of women in science and technology and recommendations to solve them

Abstract EN

Science and technology is one of the major fields in which percentage of women involvement has always been low in the third world nations.

If we really want to let women empower science and technology then we must look at the root cause of why the graph of women participation is not rising? Some of the root causes that are responsible for 3rd world women‟s backwardness in science are: 1) Lack of education in most of the 3rd world countries e.g.

Pakistan, India etc 2) Early marriages of young girls under backward customs of certain societies 3) Lack of involvement of women in formulation of governmental policies and laws 4) Women who get highly qualified and luckily get access to universities to proceed further education when get married, come under family pressures and are forced to leave their education and to not practice what they have learnt.

5) Unfavorable conditions for women to work and contribute to scientific society due to issues faced like sexual harassment at work places 6) Cultural Values, poverty, lack of role models and government apathetic behavior towards women empowerment, lack of decision making power, limited mobility are some other reasons behind the insignificant number of women in science and technology There are solutions to these problems for instance:  Creating special resources for women education and opening schools and colleges in even small districts and villages and other than teaching conventional subjects, subjects like gender studies, advanced sciences etc should be included right away from small levels  Working against the violation of rights of marriage by condemning early age marriages  Inculcating into women strong leadership abilities so that they could be able to decide for their life and could get actively involved in politics so that they could get a certain power to work for the society in general and for deprived women of the society in specific  Educating literate women on how to practice their field of specialty and yet to manage family and children.

Enhancing their communication and working skills and a need to understand their value in science and technology  Last but not the least, regarding sexual harassment, governments must be forced to apply lawfully code of conduct at all work places against sexual harassment issues.

Women must also be empowered enough to deal with such matters efficiently by conducting workshops and seminars for occupational women of the society.