Summary:
On the second day of the national conference on Women Led Science, Technology and Innovation at ICMR-NIN at Tarnaka, speakers not only discussed climate change, space technology and genome mapping, but also about the measures that can be taken to reduce gender gap in Mathematical, Computing and Natural Sciences disciplines. But it saddens me to say that gender discrimination still exists in our workplaces. When I was being considered to head the R&D department, I faced stiff opposition on account of being a woman. I still hear such tales of bias from many prestigious institutions in science.”Dr B Saha, director – R&D at NACL Industries and bureau member of IUPAC, said that in a global study, it was found that gender gap persists across all disciplines, geographic regions, levels of development and employment sectors. There is another scheme too which aims to bridge the career break that women face in view of family responsibilities..