Gender Equality in the Lens of Women in STEM in Higher Education: Status of Bangladesh and Policy Forward

• Information

  Gender Equality in the Lens of Women in STEM in Higher Education: Status of Bangladesh and Policy Forward - Information

  Matched Team	Team 7
  Name	Sayed Azharul Islam	Country	Bangladesh
  Scholarship	Global Ambassador Fellowship	Email Address	azharulsayed@hrm.ku.ac.bd
  Year	2022	Program	MPM
  Workplace Category	Academia	Workplace	Khulna University
  Department	Human Resource Management	Position	Assistant Professor

• Brief intro of project

  Gender Equality in the Lens of Women in STEM in Higher Education: Status of Bangladesh and Policy Forward - Brief intro of project

  Title	Gender Equality in the Lens of Women in STEM in Higher Education: Status of Bangladesh and Policy Forward
  Sustainable Development Goals	5. Gender Equality
  Timely Global Issues	5. Exchange of Knowledge and Culture
  Sub-topic that describes project	Gender and Equality
  Summary of your project	Today's world has taken gender equality as one of the most serious issues. Hence, the United Nations and its member states have adopted Gender Equality (Goal 5) as one of the goals of SDGs. Most of the developing states failed to ensure women's and girls' participation in science, technology, engineering, and technology (STEM) related fields of study. However, the participation of women in STEM in the context of higher education is worse than lower levels of education. In addition, Bangladesh is one of the countries which scores one of lowest in ensuring women's participation in STEM in higher education. In this circumstance, this project aims to evaluate the status of women participation in STEM related subjects in the higher educational institutes (HEIs) of Bangladesh. This project will use historical quantitative data on higher education from the reports of University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh in order to track and evaluate the current status. Then, qualitative in-depth interviews will be conducted with the university professors and students of HEIs in order to develop policy forward for ensuring women's participation in STEM higher education in Bangladesh. Other developing nations having similar socio-economic status may use the policy guidelines for facing the challenge of ensuring women's participation in STEM higher education.

• Alumni or organization want to cooperate with

  Gender Equality in the Lens of Women in STEM in Higher Education: Status of Bangladesh and Policy Forward - Alumni or organization want to cooperate with

  Specific alumni in mind	University Faculty or Higher Education Policy Expert
  Specific nationality of the alumni in mind	South Korea, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan
  Specific organization(s) / workplace(s) in mind	University, Ministry of Education, Technical College
  Specific work position(s) in mind	Lecturer-Professor, Instructor, PhD Fellow, Post-doc Researchers, Education Expert, Higher Education Policy Expert, Public Officials of Education Ministry, Political Leaders

• Details of Cooperation Project

  Gender Equality in the Lens of Women in STEM in Higher Education: Status of Bangladesh and Policy Forward - Details of Cooperation Project

  Objective of the Project	1. To evaluate the current status of women's participation in STEM higher education in the context of Bangladesh 2. To develop policy guidelines to ensure better women's participation in STEM higher education in the context of Bangladesh
  Expected Benefits from the Project	1. Understand the participation of women in STEM related subjects in higher education 2. Develop guidelines to ensure better participation of women in STEM related subjects in higher education 3. To increase global awareness toward participation of women in STEM related subjects in higher education
  Anything you would like to inform the potential partner	Kindly read the background, context, objectives of the project before your show your interest to participate. I am eagerly waiting for your kind cooperation in the proposed project.