Reflections in Diversity
Celebrating Women and Girls in STEM
A postdoctoral researcher discusses the progress that’s been made, and the steps left to take, to address science’s gender-bias problem.
Viñas Peña (third from right) attends a 2019 book fair to promote an optics book for secondary school students that she wrote with 13 other young optics researchers. [Courtesy of María Viñas Peña]
On 11 February, the world will celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (IDWGS). The annual event, created by a United Nations resolution in 2015, is an opportunity to highlight the achievements of women in science and to empower women and girls, who currently represent less than 30% of researchers, to pursue STEM careers.
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