The Technion Women in Science Initiative aims at encouraging women to undertake career paths in Israeli STEM academia and related industries. The initiative seeks to encourage women to undertake graduate studies in the engineering and hard science disciplines; it similarly focuses on removing practical and economic roadblocks to a postdoctoral commitment and to improving the conditions of entry-level academic faculty.
In Israel - like in the E.U. and the U.S. - glaring disparities between men and women still exist inmany of the STEM disciplines. As of 2015, women account for 38% of all students enrolled in the physical sciences in Israel's institutions of higher learning; they make up 29% of the students in mathematics, statistics and computer science.
The Technion proposes to establish the Technion Women in Science Initiative dedicated to promoting career options for women in Israel's high-tech industries and STEM academia. The fund will support women's opportunities up through the highest levels of academic training; it will offer female students increased financial assistance and alleviate some of the structural impediments to women's participation in advanced academic studies.
The ultimate goal is for more women to assume key positions throughout Israel's academia and leading industries.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
