In many fields of activity, women are under-represented, allowing them to access as many professions as possible from a very young age, in initial training, becomes a necessity, training.
There is no doubt that for many developing countries, the issue is girls’ education. When you consider that :
“ 132 million girls aged between 6 and 17 are still deprived of schooling; 63% of illiterate adults in the world are women; 1 in 4 girls does not go to school in developing countries.»
plan international
When you look at these figures, you realise that a government that wants its country to become more skilled must invest in girls’ education. But how can we lay the blame at the door of these countries, without questioning the need for girls’ education, when we realise that in industrialised countries not everything is won.
When a man encounters difficulties in a profession, it’s a disaster for women. Take the example of women farmers, with this magnificent article from basta ‘Invisible as farmers: women farmers”, which explains the very slow feminisation of the farming profession
Other professions remain difficult for women to access, and reversing this trend can only benefit countries and the economy.
According to Womens Forum,
« it is crucial that women have the same opportunities, the same assets, the same skills and the same expertise as men in order to design these professions of the future and benefit fully from them. This is a question of justice and equity, but also of economic performance: 240 million jobs can be created by 2025 and 28 trillion dollars added to global GDP if women and men are equally represented»
There is a lot of talk about IT professions, and many organisations are setting up training courses to ensure that women are better represented, to name but a few. in France : la capsule, Social Builder, Numériques pour elles, Descodeuses, Adatechschool., etc…
If things are really to move in the right direction, and as has already been said, the modifications and changes must take place in initial education: in primary school, secondary school and high school. We can never thank enough the feminist men who have defended and continue to defend women’s causes (see the article on feminist men on rajart s website)