{"id":10762,"date":"2023-03-08T15:14:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T14:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karlsruhe.digital\/2023\/03\/international-womens-day-frauenparade-digital\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T10:58:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:58:49","slug":"international-womens-day-parade-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlsruhe.digital\/en\/2023\/03\/international-womens-day-parade-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women’s Day: frauenparade.digital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On International\nWomen’s Day<\/a>, March 8, women around the world are taking to the streets for equality\nand against discrimination. Under this year’s motto “DigitALL:\nInnovation and technology for gender equality”, the United\nNations<\/a> is highlighting barriers to women’s participation in the digital world at\n. <\/p>\n\n

And this is urgently needed, as the United Nations figures show: To date, 37% of all women do not use the Internet. 259 million women have less access to the internet than men, even though they make up almost half of the world’s population. In Germany, 12% of women are still offline<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n

As a consequence, this means that if\nwomen have less or poorer access to the internet and do not feel safe online\n, they are left behind when it comes to developing urgently\nneeded digital skills. <\/p>\n\n

In view of the forecast that 75% of jobs will be in STEM fields by 2050, the opportunities for a career in these occupational fields will also deteriorate. Apart from the fact that this development could have fatal consequences for participation in the labor market in general, women are particularly important in STEM professions. This is where the digital world is shaped and access options are created or not.<\/p>\n\n

Many disciplines related to the digital transformation are still male-dominated. Although there is a clear upward trend in the number of female students in computer science, for example, the proportion of women among all university graduates in STEM fields actually declined between 2013 and 2019, as the G7Dashboard on Gender Gaps<\/a> shows. <\/p>\n\n

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Early education and female role models are important tools to change this. Early education programs aimed specifically at girls help to awaken their interest. <\/p>\n\n

This is why the promotion of girls is also an important issue in Karlsruhe\n. We have compiled some of the offers in our overview article\n“Women in IT professions: Karlsruhe initiatives support women from elementary school to university\n“. <\/p>\n\n

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Frauen in IT-Berufen: Karlsruher Initiativen f\u00f6rdern von der Grundschule bis zum Studium<\/a><\/blockquote>