Women in Science Day - some free academic resources

11th February is designated International Women in Science Day. The official website has the UN resolution plus related UN documents

It is necessary as
according to UNESCO data (2014- 2016), only around 30 per cent of all female students select STEM-related fields in higher education. Globally, female students’ enrolment is particularly low in ICT (3 per cent), natural science, mathematics and statistics (5 per cent) and in engineering, manufacturing and construction (8 per cent).

This fact sheet presents the latest UIS data on research and experimental development (R&D) available as of June 2018 The vast majority of data are presented in headcounts (HC), which are the total number of persons employed in R&D. This includes staff employed both full -time and part time. The regional averages for the share of female researchers (based on available data only) for 2015 are:28.8% for World with smaller percentages form other regions.

 for the UK: the Wise campaign has workforce and education statistics.

The Women's Engineering Society  is a campaign group whose website has statistics and programme information for the UK. Theybstate that in 2017 11% of the workforce was female

PWC has some useful surveys and dat on women in Tech

Stemettes is a leading campaign group which has programmes to encourage girls to learn and take careers in Stem subjects

Finally great videos from BBC ideas - where did all the women in tech go? which discusses the history of women in technology. and the film from Dame Stephanie Shirley on why she had to change her name to Steve