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Pakistan has one of the highest gender gaps in the world, and it is the third least performer in gender parity according to a report published by World Economic Forum in 2020. [3] The low literacy rate of women in Pakistan, despite women making almost half the population, is one of the factors in a high gender gap in STEM fields. This literacy ...
Tasneem Zehra Husain is a Pakistani theoretical physicist. She is one of few Pakistani women to obtain a doctorate in physics, and the first Pakistani woman string theorist. [1] An eminent scientist, she has been a guest speaker at a various schools and colleges in an effort to promote science and technology in Pakistan.
She organizes field trips for students and utilizes visualization and e-learning methods of teaching. Her teaching approach earned the school World Summit Youth Award in Education for All category in 2011. [6]
In a small workshop in the bustling northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, a dozen Afghan women sit watching a teacher show them how to make clothes on a sewing machine. The skills centre was ...
Abdullah also advocates for women in STEM, particularly women in machine learning and data science. She is also a writer at Omdena where she writes about the challenges of women in machine learning and advocates for their inclusion in the field. [14] She is also part of AI for good and AI wonder girls; a community founded to support women in AI ...
Samina Baig, a 32-year-old from a remote northern village in Pakistan, was the first to hoist her country's green and white flag atop the peak of the 28,250 foot-high (8,610 meter) K2. Iran's ...
Number of Pakistani women in 'STEM' is low due to one of the highest gender gaps in STEM fields. [191] [192] However, over the time, some Pakistani women have emerged as scientists in fields like Physics, Biology and computer sciences. Some notable Pakistani women contributing to STEM are: Nergis Mavalvala:Pakistani-American physicist
Women in STEM may leave due to not being invited to professional meetings, the use of sexually discriminating standards against women, inflexible working conditions, the perceived need to hide pregnancies, and the struggle to balance family and work. Women in STEM fields that have children either need child care or to take a long leave of absence.