{"id":10552,"date":"2021-02-11T14:49:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T19:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=10552"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:47","slug":"striving-for-gender-equity-celebrating-the-international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2021\/striving-for-gender-equity-celebrating-the-international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Striving for Gender Equity: Celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Striving for Gender Equity: Celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/roslyn-dakin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roslyn Dakin<\/a>, a relatively new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">biology<\/a>&nbsp;professor at Carleton and a member of the science EDI committee, believes that role models have a tremendous influence on the university and career choices made by girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since starting at Carleton in 2019, Dakin has been struck by the number and variety of ways for undergrads to get involved in research projects, whether for classroom credit or through paid lab assistant and co-op gigs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd the skills you learn through this type of training are really empowering and can translate into other aspects of your life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science\/?utm_source=Homepage&amp;utm_medium=Banner\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roslyn Dakin, a relatively new&nbsp;biology&nbsp;professor at Carleton and a member of the science EDI committee, believes that role models have a tremendous influence on the university and career choices made by girls. Since starting at Carleton in 2019, Dakin has been struck by the number and variety of ways for undergrads to get involved in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10553,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552\/revisions\/10553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}