Globally and in Cambodia, UNESCO works to handle these gender stereotypes and prejudices, that are deeply rooted in our societies and forestall girls and women from pursuing scientific and technological research.

According to UNESCO Institute of Statistics, in increased schooling, girls characterize simply over 35 per cent of graduates in STEM-related fields.

Since 2021, Ms. Seakguech Sok has been working as an Environmental Analyst with the Natural Sciences Unit of UNESCO Phnom Penh Office, to strengthen the coordination across the Tonle Sap Bioshere Reserve to protect its sources and promote livelihoods improvement.

As a graduate from Beloit College, Wisconsin, USA with a Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Environmental Biology, Guech is enthusiastic about conserving native vegetation and biodiversity in Cambodia. She can be a recipient of the celebrated SHE-CAN scholarship, awarded to younger girls with promising management potential.

UNESCO is working to foster environments that encourage women and girls to check scientific subjects, as we consider empowering women and younger girls with the identical entry for coaching in STEM topics (science, expertise, engineering, and arithmetic) is the important thing to closing the hole on the digital divide.

Sreykhouch is likely one of the graduates from UNESCO’s Basic Education Equivalency Programme (BEEP) who’s now pursuing her technical and vocational certificates in automotive mechanics. Even although she is only one of three feminine college students in her class, she doesn’t let it deter her.

Sopheany Prum is a trainer educator at Preah Vihear Provincial Teacher Training Centre specialising in creating the data and abilities of future major faculty academics in science. In 2020, when she first discovered a couple of new Bachelor of Education programme developed with UNESCO’s assist, she determined to enrol within the programme in order that she will specialize in instructing science and develop into a greater science trainer educator.

Now, Sopheany specialises in 4 completely different science topics – biology, chemistry, physics and earth science.

Female function fashions in STEM fields like Sopheany are vital for uplifting extra girls and women in Cambodia to participate in STEM and cut back the gender hole in STEM careers and schooling, and supporting the following era of girls engineers, mathematicians and scientists!

Dr. Danet Hak holds a PhD in Mechanical and Environmental Informatics and is the Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia. On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, her message is obvious: we should assist girls and women to develop in STEM.

Dr. Nallis Kry, who holds a PhD in Materials Engineering, is Deputy Director General of the General Department of Science, Technology and Innovation at Cambodia’s Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology & Innovation. The science, expertise, engineering, and arithmetic (STEM) fields can attain new heights by fostering the elevated participation of girls like Dr. Kry.

UNESCO seeks to interrupt down stereotypes, by elevating consciousness of girls scientists who’re blazing new trails. As function fashions, they’re examples for younger girls and women to observe – underlining that they can also obtain excellence. Only by tapping into all sources of data, all sources of expertise, can we unlock the total potential of science, and rise to the challenges of our time.

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