Roseanne Diab
Roseanne Diab (11 November 1949 – 10 January 2026) was a researcher, the Director of Gender in science, innovation, technology and engineering (SITE), a UNESCO's programme unit hosted by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).
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[edit]- The Role of Gender-Responsive Organizations in Global Science," explaining the concept and expanding on it. Being gender-responsive, she said, means creating an environment that promotes an inclusive approach, recognizing the needs of both women and men.
- There are still many unconscious biases that prevent building a workplace where everybody is appreciated, respected and treated equally. Unfortunately.
- We tend to think that numerical gender parity is a good achievement in itself and that increasing the number of women fellows within institutes and academies is a valuable milestone," Diab said in her presentation.
- She continued, “However, gender transformation involves far more than achieving gender parity. It is a shift from a focus on statistics to a deeper dimension that embraces an understanding of the needs and aspirations of all people, especially women.
- Addressing only the notion of parity in numbers is not enough. We need to take bolder steps,
- Institutions and academies worldwide should give more visibility to women scientists.
- TWAS has great potential to play a powerful gender-transformative role and to influence norms and practices in science academies across the developing world. TWAS draws its fellows, prize winners and attendees at events from multiple countries and also has five regional partners through which it can play an influential role.” And finally
- Achieving gender transformation requires the engagement of both men and women. It's not only a men's or women's responsibility: we can travel this journey together
