While 70% of female students show strong interest in STEM, nearly half doubt their own abilities and over a third fear skepticism from others. A new report by Walbrook Institute London (formerly LIBF) reveals that over two thirds (72%) of young women in the UK still don’t feel like they have enough knowledge to study a degree in computer science or IT – with a mere 28% believing that they do.
On 26 May 2025, , the Global Wo.Men Hub hosted a powerful and thought-provoking webinar titled “Discover Women Who Inspire: Leaders and Innovation in Europe and the Americas.” The event brought together thought leaders, experts, and advocates for gender equality to highlight the transformative role of women in innovation, leadership, and social change.
If there is an area in which innovations are inserted in the social sphere, it is the legal world. Three pioneers in Spanish law, Clara Campoamor (1888-1972) , Mercedes Formica (1916-2002) and María Telo (1915-2014), faced problems that had existed for centuries and introduced changes with the aim of eradicating them in a sustainable way in space and time, creating value for society, so it can be said that they were true social innovators.
The Women and Innovation 2024 Report is the third edition of the biennial series that began in 2020 promoted by the Women, Science, and Innovation Observatory (OMCI) of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Spain), with the aim of analysing the situation of women in the field of innovation.
The new study, ‘Women Founders in European Deep Tech Start-ups’ reveals that women founders in the field receive less total funding compared with men founders. According to the study, women
are underrepresented in deep tech start-ups, with less than one quarter (24%) of deep tech start-ups created in 2022 having at least one woman in the founding team. 7,165 start-ups founded since
2010 were analysed as part of the study using the Dealroom database (a global provider of data and intelligence on start-ups and tech ecosystems) across 37 European countries.
This policy brief puts forward policy options to ensure that women and men alike can benefit from AI at work, including: applying a gender lens when monitoring AI’s impact; following an inclusive approach to upskilling and reskilling; bridging gender divides in tech; combatting AI-induced bias; and using AI to combat bias.
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