{"id":13940,"date":"2025-02-11T17:02:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T17:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/?p=13940"},"modified":"2025-06-24T11:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T11:00:31","slug":"international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science","status":"publish","type":"eventos","link":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/eventos\/dia-internacional-das-mulheres-e-raparigas-na-ciencia\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Women and Girls in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

The International Day of Women and Girls in Science, celebrated annually on February 11, is an initiative created in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly to recognize the relevant role played by women and girls in the production of scientific and technological knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cExploring careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM): her voice in science\u201d was the theme chosen for this year, with the aim of raising awareness among civil society of the importance of breaking down the barriers imposed by inequality between men and women in access to education and careers in science and innovation, as shared in the official information on UNESCO's website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent decades there has been an increase in the participation of women in science research activities, opening up and exploring new paths that have also benefited the younger generations by arousing their interest and greater attendance at higher education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Portugal is a good example, as Portuguese women scientists represent almost 50% of the total number of researchers in our country, with remarkable work that has been fundamental to the progress that national science and technology have made in recent decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since its creation, the InPP has valued and supported scientific and technological development through multiple projects in a wide variety of areas, where female leadership has had a positive track record, contributing to the expansion of the collaborative laboratory, the creation of valuable partnerships and the transfer of knowledge to the business environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This expansion has led to a consequent increase in scientific advances which, together with the latest technologies, improve the competitiveness of the economy and add value to the area of biotechnology and plant health, for preventing and combating pests and diseases in agricultural crops. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To mark this date, we are highlighting the 24 women who are innovating in Portugal in the biotechnology and crop protection sector, and who represent the science and innovation being developed at InPP. These are some of the women who embody the words commitment, demand, resilience, overcoming, quality, talent, excellence and creativity. But there are many more and today, as every day, we celebrate them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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O Dia Internacional das Mulheres e Raparigas na Ci\u00eancia, celebrado, anualmente, no dia 11 de fevereiro, \u00e9 uma iniciativa criada em 2015, pela Assembleia Geral das Na\u00e7\u00f5es Unidas, com o prop\u00f3sito de reconhecer o papel relevante desempenhado pelas mulheres e raparigas na produ\u00e7\u00e3o de conhecimento cient\u00edfico e tecnol\u00f3gico. \u201cExplorar as carreiras de Ci\u00eancia, Tecnologia, Engenharia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15653,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13940","eventos","type-eventos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/13940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/eventos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/13940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15654,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/13940\/revisions\/15654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}