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DAN GOODS - Farah Alibay grew up in Quebec and has worked at NASA for the past six years.
Surrounded by white men on a daily basis, Farah Alibay is committed to increasing diversity and the visibility of women in her field.
Florence Breton - HuffPost Quebec
February 20, 2020 -Farah Alibay is a female aerospace engineer in a male-dominated field, but that hasn’t stopped the 32-year-old from forging ahead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Los Angeles to help reveal the secrets of Mars.
Alibay, who grew up in Joliette, Quebec, first became interested in space when she saw the movie “Apollo 13” at the age of 10.
“I got so worried watching the movie that my parents fast forwarded all the way to the end to show me that the astronauts had survived,” she told HuffPost Quebec. “Afterward, we watched the rest of the movie. It really fascinated me to see the engineers working together, even though they were all men.”
“My brother, who had always loved space, lost all interest in it once the movie was over,” she said. “From then on, I was the space lover.”
Direct Link to Full 2-Page Women Deliver – World Food Programme Infographic:
https://womendeliver.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/WFP-Hum-Infographic_Updated.pdf
UNODC – UN Office of Drugs & Crime
Direct Link to Full 42-Page UNODC Report:
https://www.unodc.org/wdr2018/prelaunch/WDR18_Booklet_5_WOMEN.pdf
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Hoan works at the Tinh Loi Garment Factory, in North Vietnam, where she works on average 62 hours each week, earning around $1 an hour, packaging t-shirts and shirts for global export.
Gender inequality is one of the oldest and most pervasive forms of inequality in the world. It denies women their voices, devalues their work and make women’s position unequal to men’s, from the household to the national and global levels.
Despite some important progress to change this in recent years, in no country have women achieved economic equality with men, and women are still more likely than men to live in poverty.
