{"id":11249,"date":"2011-08-04T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T13:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=11249"},"modified":"2011-08-10T13:44:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T18:44:38","slug":"vasseur-advocates-for-women-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/08\/vasseur-advocates-for-women-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Vasseur advocates for women in science"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11248\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11248\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11248\" title=\"Liette Vasseur\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/liette-vasseur-27web.jpg\" alt=\"Liette Vasseur is Secretary General of an international organization for women in science.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liette Vasseur is Secretary General of an international organization for women in science.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Brock scientist has taken a lead role in an international organization of women engineers and scientists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/mathematics-science\/departments-and-centres\/biology\/people\/liette-vasseur\" target=\"_blank\">Liette Vasseur<\/a>, Biological Sciences professor, is new Secretary General of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inwes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists<\/a> (INWES). The network, which supports women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, has more than 250,000 members from 60 countries. It was formed in 1999 during a UNESCO World Science Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Vasseur has participated in women in science groups for a few years. Women in science face a lot of hurdles, even in Canada, she said. When she talks to graduate students, she discovers the same challenges she had as a graduate student, such as discrimination and maintaining a life balance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In some disciplines like computer science and engineering, the number of women graduating with a PhD is in decline in the past few years,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Vasseur&#8217;s research in developing countries has made it clear to her that opportunities for women play a crucial role in the development of a country, she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In several countries, still today, girls and women are denied education, which tends to limit their possibility for a better life,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There is a need to examine the context in which women live in these countries and the barriers they deal with to get an education, and to find solutions that can be sustainable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vasseur is the only Canadian on the INWES committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Brock scientist has taken a lead role in an international organization of women engineers and scientists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[49,3328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11249"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11293,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11249\/revisions\/11293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}