TEHRAN - On December 22, 2015, the United Nations General Assembly chose to establish an annual International Day to recognize the vital function women and ladies play in science and technology.Gender equality has actually always been a core issue for the United Nations.

Gender equality and the empowerment of females and women will make a vital contribution not just to the financial development of the world but to advance across all the goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as well.Even though women have made remarkable development toward increasing their involvement in college, they are still under-represented in these fields.The International Day of Women and Girls in Science celebrated on February 11, is implemented by UNESCO and UN-Women, in partnership with organizations and civil society partners that intend to promote women and ladies in science.This Day is a chance to promote complete and equivalent access to and involvement in science for females and ladies.

Gender equality is an international top priority for UNESCO, and the support of young girls, their education, and their complete capability to make their ideas heard are levers for development and peace.This year, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science concentrated on the role of Women and Girls and Science as associates with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

On March 14, 2011, the Commission on the Status of Women embraced a report at its fifty-fifth session, with agreed conclusions on gain access to and participation of women and women in education, training and science and innovation, and for the promotion of womens equal access to complete work and decent work.On December 20, 2013, the General Assembly adopted a resolution on science, innovation, and development for development, in which it recognized that full and equal access to and participation in science, technology, and development for females and girls of any ages is necessary for accomplishing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.In 2020, the United Nations Women, a UN entity for gender equality and womens empowerment, honored 7 females scientists, including Irans Maryam Mirzakhani, who have actually made significant contributions to the field of science, highlighting their world-altering and trailblazing careers.

Theyve found life-saving remedies, designed world-altering innovations, and produced far-reaching research study, but oftentimes, their indispensable advances are minimized or ignored, the Un Women website composed on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, February 11.

Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian-born genius mathematician and Stanford University professor, obtained her BSc in mathematics (1999) from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran.Later, she made her Ph.D.

from Harvard University and was a leading scholar on the dynamics and geometry of complicated surface areas.

In 2014, she became the very first female winner of the Fields Medal, the most distinguished award in mathematics.