Gender Advisory Board Publication Series — Volume II
Volume II of the Gender Advisory Board series moves from the conceptual framework established in Volume I to detailed regional analyses, documenting the state of women's participation in science and technology across Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Each regional assessment examines enrollment patterns across the S&T education pipeline, the representation of women in national research systems and public science institutions, and the policy environments shaping those outcomes. The assessments draw on national statistics, UNESCO data, and field research conducted by GAB collaborators in each region.
A consistent finding across regions is the divergence between women's growing participation in tertiary science education and their underrepresentation in senior research positions, policy advisory roles, and the leadership of science and technology institutions. Volume II documents the specific national and regional factors — from family formation pressures to funding allocation disparities — that drive this gap.
The comparative structure of the regional assessments made Volume II a standard reference for development practitioners designing capacity-building programs during the 1990s and 2000s. Its country-level data on women's S&T participation were cited in UNDP human development reports and in funding proposals to bilateral development agencies.