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UN Women signs agreement with ministries in Chile to promote gender equality and women's empowerment
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UN Women signed collaboration agreements with the ministries of Public Works, Economy, Labor, Education, and Environment to support the strengthening of the strategy, gender mainstreaming, and intersectionality in public policies and thematic emphasis of each portfolio.
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They will be astronauts: Mariana Ospina and Ingrid Guacheta are two of the 31 girls in the She's an Astronaut program who traveled to NASA to learn about space. Today, on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we share their story so that they can continue to be an inspiration for all of us.
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Since 2015, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science has been commemorated every February 11th, a UN initiative that seeks to highlight inequality in science and technology disciplines and empower women in the key role they can play in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Although more women are gaining access to science and technology, at the current rate the gender gap will close by the year 2100.
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Ana Saenz leads the response to sexual harassment in the Guatemalan student community. The "Oliverio Castañeda de León" University Students Association (AEU) is the most important student organization in Guatemala and, in its more than one hundred years of history, has given a voice to the student community inside and outside the University of San Carlos in Guatemala. In 2018, I joined the AEU as its first Gender Secretary, a new role in responding to the specific demands and needs of women students.
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Challenging stereotypes through education and providing tools to strengthen the self-esteem of adolescents and girls in educational institutions is the main objective behind the webinar series developed by the UN Women's Programme for Self-Esteem, which is supported by Unilever through its Dove brand.
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Sport has the power to transcend boundaries of sex, race, religion and nationality. It promotes health and wellness, improves self-esteem, and teaches leadership, team skills and perseverance. Women in sport defy gender stereotypes, make inspiring role models, and show men and women as equals. Seeing is one step closer to being. Women are more visible in sport now than ever before: Of a total of 997 athletes, only 22 women competed, for the first...