Overview
- UNESCO reiterates that roughly one in three researchers worldwide is a woman, with Mexico at 32.3% and Peru’s registry reporting 34%, while women hold just 26% of data and AI roles and 12% in cloud computing.
- Spain’s latest Científicas en Cifras shows parity in overall higher education yet only 28–31% women in engineering and architecture and just 27% of full professorships, reflecting a persistent leaky pipeline.
- A new analysis of Mexico’s SNI promotions finds women produced 1.2 more papers than men before moving from Level I to II yet were promoted less often (13% of women versus 22% of men).
- Researchers across Latin America cite caregiving burdens, biased evaluations, limited visibility and academic violence as barriers that curb leadership and skew research priorities, including women’s health.
- Governments and institutions marked February 11 with hands-on workshops and mentoring programs, including classroom visits by hundreds of women scientists in Catalonia and child-friendly labs in Vigo, aligning with the UN’s 2026 theme on AI, social sciences, STEM and finance.