2024-02-13 06:13:00
Gender equality, in all spaces, is an issue in which we must not take our finger off the line, as it eliminates persistent asymmetries. Particularly, in the case of women, their guarantee, from childhood, not only vindicates our rights, but also normalizes our participation in decision-making positions in both the public and private spheres.
With the purpose of encouraging little girls to enter scientific and technological careers that, erroneously, have been stereotyped as “masculine”, the UN has called to commemorate, every February 11, the days of “Women and the Girl in Science” and “the Medical Woman”, highlighting the role of those who are dedicated to the aforementioned disciplines.
UNESCO, in its publication “Cracking the Code”, since 2019, had already identified that only 30 percent of the world’s female population, enrolled at a higher level, opted for careers known as STEM; that is, those related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; recording that, of such topics, 15 percent preferred those related to health and well-being. Likewise, the report revealed that the burden of family obligations associated with a female role, along with the environment and working conditions, influenced their choice.
Despite the above, our presence in these areas has increasingly expanded. For example, in the area of health, the case of Matilde Montoya Lafragua was historic when she became the first Mexican doctor, in 1887; and currently, according to data from the UNAM Gazette of 2023, there are more female doctors who graduate from the Faculty of Medicine of this House of Studies than men, 556 out of a total of 890.
According to INEGI, in 2022, we had 140,492 professional women in this field, of which, more than 46,000 had some specialty. However, only 6 percent held managerial positions, earning, on average, 22 percent less than their male peers in such hierarchies; It was calculated that they only received 81.67 pesos for every 100 that the men received.
The field of medicine is still an unfinished female conquest, whose exclusion gap increases as age advances, which indicates a tendency to abandon its practice, as noted in the document produced, in 2022, by the Collective “Mexico, how Let’s go?”, which indicated that only 8.3 percent of those who were 60 years old or older continued working.
From these lines, and within the framework of such important dates to remember, let us continue to feminize our environment, since, with each action promoted in favor of the breaking of glass ceilings, we promote a substantial change to the reality of the new generations ; Because as the novelist and social activist, Alice Walker, said, women have to be filled with courage to achieve our sleeping dreams.
BY MARINA SAN MARTÍN REBOLLOSO
INFOCDMX COMMISSIONER
@NAVYSANMARTIN
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