{"id":8153,"date":"2020-02-12T05:53:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T05:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=8153"},"modified":"2020-02-12T05:53:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T05:53:26","slug":"international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Women and Girls in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is\nobserved on 11 February to end gender inequality in the field of science and\ntechnology and to encourage women and girls to contribute to the STEM fields. The\npurpose of the day is to achieve full and equal access to and participation in\nscience for women and girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Current\nAffairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The theme of 2020 is ‘Investment in Women and Girls in\nScience for Inclusive Green Growth.’ The theme focuses on the empowerment of\nwomen and girls, equal access and motivates them to opt for science. In 2015,\nthe United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared 11 February as the\nInternational Day of Women and Girls in Science. The day was implemented by\nUNESCO and UN Women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is observed on 11 February to end gender inequality in the field of science and technology and to encourage women and girls to contribute to the STEM fields. The purpose of the day is to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[906],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-february-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8155,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions\/8155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}