{"id":3185,"date":"2020-02-17T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/104.152.168.11\/~globalwomens\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2020-03-10T13:07:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T09:07:36","slug":"women-should-define-their-own-success-says-accomplished-female-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalwomensforumdubai.com\/2020\/media-centre\/women-should-define-their-own-success-says-accomplished-female-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Women should define their own success, says accomplished female scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Dr. Rana\nDajani speaks at a Game-Changer session at Global Women\u2019s Forum Dubai 2020 <\/em><em><\/em><\/li><li><em>Session\nhighlights high representation of Arab women in STEM education<\/em><em><\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dubai, UAE; 17 February 2020<\/strong>: Women should be given the opportunity to design and define their\nsuccess in society and should not be compared to men, an accomplished scientist\nand academician told the audience at the Global Women\u2019s Forum Dubai 2020 on\nMonday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking in a \u2018Game-Changer\u2019 session, organised as part of the Forum to\nshowcase inspiring personal stories from women who have made great strides\nacross various industries, Dr. Rana Dajani, one of the most influential female\nscientists in the Islamic World, said: \u201cIdeas of success are very male designed\nand are spreading around the world without asking women what they really want.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Dajani, who began her session by showcasing five different scarves\nto explain the different roles in her life, said: \u201cI wear five scarves which\nare a symbol of the different roles I play in life. I\u2019m a mother of four\nchildren, which is the most important role I play to bring up good citizens,\nI\u2019m an educator, and a molecular cell biologist studying trauma on our bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m also a social entrepreneur. I started a programme called \u2018We Love Reading\u2019\nwhich encourages children to read for fun,\u201d she said, as she showed the\naudience another coloured scarf. \u201cMany children don\u2019t read around the world\nbecause their parents don\u2019t read aloud to them, so through this programme, we\nhope to bring up a generation of change makers,\u201d she said, adding that the\nprogramme began in Jordan and has now spread to 55 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the fifth scarf, which she wears as a feminist, she said she\nnarrates her story in a book titled Five Scarves: <em>Doing the Impossible\u2014If We\nCan Reverse Cell Fate, Why Can\u2019t We Redefine Success?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her session, Dr. Dajani pointed out that many reports are not able to\nexplain why there are less women in the workforce compared to men. Generally,\nit is attributed to the lack of educated females, which is incorrect, she said.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe need to look at implicit attitudes in different cultures and\nquestion gender gap index measurements and call for more research. We are doing\nsomething right in the Arab world in terms of STEM education for females and\nother parts of the world can learn from us,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highlighting common issues faced by women, Dr. Dajani explained that\nfamily dynamics and children are the reasons women leave the workforce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe need to also look at the root causes because we assume we know what\nwomen want in a society. We need to shift to asking them what they really want\nand they could want different things,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Rana Dajani speaks at a Game-Changer session at Global Women\u2019s Forum Dubai 2020 Session highlights high representation of Arab women in STEM education Dubai, UAE; 17 February 2020: Women should be given the opportunity to design and define their success in society and should not be compared to men, an accomplished scientist and academician [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-centre","category-media-centre-mobile"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Women should define their own success, says accomplished female scientist - 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