Professor Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, yesterday launched the “Science for Women-A Technology and Innovation (SWATI)” portal, which aims to create a platform representing Indian women and girls in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering) (Mathematics and Medicine) online portal has to be created. Launching the portal on the occasion of International Day of Women and Girls in Science at the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi, Professor Sood said, the database of Swati portal will be useful in policy making to address the challenges of gender-gap. .
The portal is a complete interactive database; and the first of its kind in India, developed, hosted and maintained by the National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi, under the leadership of Dr. Subhra Chakraborty, Director, NIPGR, New Delhi; Link to join Swati: https://bit.ly/JoinSWATI .
Dr. Chakraborty in his address highlighted this aspect and said that this is probably the world's first interactive portal of its kind. She also cited data from the 2021 UN report to highlight the under-representation of women across all sectors. He reiterated that this is a dynamically growing portal and an effort has been made to include data of all women scientists in the country.
Other objectives of the Swati Portal include rapidly scaling up efforts to engage every Indian woman in science, across all career stages and disciplines, in both academia and industry, leading to reliable and statistically significant long-term research on equity issues. To be able to. , Diversity and Inclusivity in India; Covering every Indian YS, career stage, subjects spanning both academia and industry; To enable credible and statistically significant long-term research on issues of equality, diversity and inclusivity in India, develop active search engines and searchable databases (name, affiliation, area of interest).
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