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30 Nov -0001 ↑ International Day of Women and Girls in Science

International Day of Women and Girls in Science was celebrated by IQAC, Legal Awareness Club, and Sociology department in association with District Legal Services Authority, Gurdaspur. Advocate Rusa Sabharwal from Legal Services Cell was the resource person. Dr. Rama Gandotra, coordinator of the Legal Awareness club introduced the speaker. This day has been adopted by UNESCO in 2015. Advocate Rusa Sabharwal elaborated various schemes run by District Legal Services Authority. She threw light on the POCSO Act. While addressing the students, she discussed that although Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields are widely regarded as critical to national economies, most countries have not achieved gender equality in STEM. Women have made tremendous progress towards increasing their participation in higher education, but they are still underrepresented in these fields. Gender equality has always been a core issue for the United Nations. Women are typically given smaller research grants than their male colleagues while they represent 33.3% of all researchers, only 12% of members of national science academies are women. In cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, only one in five professionals (22%) is a woman. Therefore the United Nations adopted this day to increase parity