30.04.2021
On 29 May 2021, students of the V.V. Popovskyy ICE Department, Anastasiia Kruglova, Anna Zhuravlyova, Maria Mytsyk took part in the 15th Regional Scientific Competition for Young Scientists “Gender politics in the eyes of Ukrainian youth” with a research paper on “Analysis of the current status of gender balance in information and communication technologies and STEM-education in Ukraine and the EU” in the nomination “Girls STEM – new energy”.
The aim of the Competition is to promote complex implementation of gender equality and non-discrimination in education and to identify ways to guide the development of education towards a systematic gender mainstreaming approach that ensures its compliance with European democratic principles; to strengthen the institutional mechanism for promoting gender equality; to spread best practices of the Gender Centre Network of Higher Education Institutions. The main issues that have been proposed for scientific and practical analysis are:
- gender strategies: history and modernity;
- gender equality as a factor of European integration of Ukraine;
- gender aspects of sustainable development;
- gender component in health care, environment, social protection, education, culture, etc;
- issues of countering gender discrimination; ways to overcome negative traditional gender stereotypes.
This year’s competition introduced separate nominations:
- ensuring gender equality in the security and defense sector: new achievements and new challenges;
- STEM girls – new energy.
