Qatar University celebrates International Day of Women and Girls in Science – The Peninsula Qatar

Qatar University celebrates International Day of Women and Girls in Science – The Peninsula Qatar

Doha: Qatar University celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2022 in cooperation with the Qatar National Commission for Education, Culture and Science, and the Unesco office in Doha with the participation of a group of female scientists and researchers from different parts of the country.

The celebration entitled “equality, diversity, and inclusiveness: water unites us” comes for the fourth year in a row, as Qatar University believes in the role of women and their active participation in the field of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, in addition to their prominent role in creating practical and societal solutions to preserve natural resources, especially water.

Vice-President of Qatar University for Research and Graduate Studies, Professor Maryam Al Maadeed noted the important steps that the State of Qatar had achieved in terms of laws and legislation, and the various types of support and opportunities it had provided to women, adding it opened the doors of science and work for women, and make them actively contribute to the development and reaching to the high positions. She explained girls constitute the largest percentage of students at Qatar University, with a continuous increase in the number of female faculty members, and post-graduate students, as