The House Committee on Appropriations approved the Science for Change Program (S4CP) bill that was proposed by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) on August 4. Albay Rep. Joey Salceda, Pangasinan Fourth District Rep. Christopher De Venecia and Science Secretary Fortunato T. de la Pena spoke on behalf of…
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DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña (PCOO/ MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña relayed this to the Manila Bulletin on Monday, June 7, as he congratulated the NAST PHL, country’s premier recognition and advisory body on science and technology (S&T), and the Academy Sciences Malaysia for organizing the ASEAN Foresight Alliance (AFA) Workshop from June 7-9.
“Recently, NAST PHL has announced that they will soon come out with this Philippines STI (Science-Technology-Innovation) Foresight and Roadmap for the period up to 2050,” he said in a Viber message to the Manila Bulletin on Monday.
Filipino female scientists with remarkable contributions in medicine and education
When an imbalance in the system debarred women the right to knowledge and rendered them mere household figures, their skills and passion were obscured by male dominance and patriarchy as they tried to enter STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) or any seemingly gender-biased field. Based on research studies, man and woman could pitch the same pitch but the former would hog the credits, funding, and application 70 percent of the time. As this system went on, a lot of skilled women shied away at the first from entering an already male-dominated field, resulting to non-diversity in the workforce.