{"id":2550,"date":"2021-03-08T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T05:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2021-04-11T13:07:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T11:07:23","slug":"medzinarodny-den-zien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/medzinarodny-den-zien\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women's Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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International Women's Day<\/strong>
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History of IWD<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8th around the world. It is a focal point in the movement for women's rights. The first National Women\u2019s Day was observed in the United States of America on February 28th. The Socialist Party of America designated this day in honour of the 1908 garment workers\u2019 strike in New York, where 40 000 women protested against working conditions. In December 1977, the United Nations<\/a> General Assembly adopted a resolution proclaiming a United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace to be observed on any day of the year by Member States, in accordance with their historical and national traditions.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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International Women's Day is celebrated in many countries around the world. IWD is a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political. This day is a manifestation of solidarity between women and a reminder of the effort to equalize women and at the same time the longest revolution in our history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1910, a second International Conference of Working Women<\/a> second International Conference of Working Women was held in Copenhagen. A woman named Clara Zetkin<\/a> (Leader of the 'Women's Office' for the Social Democratic Party in Germany) tabled the idea of an International Women's Day. She proposed that every year there should be a celebration on the same day in every country \u2013 an International Women's Day \u2013 to press for their demands. The suggestion received unanimous approval and thus International Women's Day was instituted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following year on March 19th, 1911, International Women's Day (IWD) was marked for the first time, by over a million people in Austria-Hungary, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. In addition to the requirements for better working conditions, the right to vote, equal pay, etc. were also demanded. Since 1975, we have commemorated the IWD as a day of international solidarity of all women striving to achieve equality, justice, peace and development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what about IWD in Slovakia? The first IWD national holiday in Czechoslovakia took place in 1921 and a year later IWD acquired a mass character. During the Second World War IWD was abolished and subsequently renewed after 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women and IT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Women in the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), including information and communication technologies (ICT) are significantly under-represented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  \u201eIT sektor trp\u00ed glob\u00e1lnym chronick\u00fdm nedostatkom IKT \u0161pecialistov. \u017deny s\u00fa podreprezentovan\u00e9 na v\u0161etk\u00fdch stup\u0148och digit\u00e1lneho sektora v Eur\u00f3pe. Hoci pr\u00e1ve digit\u00e1lny sektor sa rap\u00eddne rozrast\u00e1 a tvor\u00ed stovky tis\u00edcov nov\u00fdch pracovn\u00fdch miest ka\u017ed\u00fd rok, pomer \u017eien v tomto sektore kles\u00e1. Napriek dopytu po IKT zru\u010dnostiach a rast\u00facej nezamestnanosti sa predpoklad\u00e1, \u017ee E\u00da bude trpie\u0165 nedostatkom digit\u00e1lnych zru\u010dnost\u00ed u\u017e od roku 2020. 52% popul\u00e1cie E\u00da s\u00fa \u017eeny, av\u0161ak reprezentuj\u00fa len 17% zo v\u0161etk\u00fdch IKT \u0161pecialistov a zar\u00e1baj\u00fa o 19% menej v porovnan\u00ed s mu\u017emi pracuj\u00facich na rovnak\u00fdch poz\u00edciach. S 13.7% zast\u00fapen\u00edm \u017eien v tejto oblasti je Slovensko pod priemerom E\u00da.\u201c<\/em> According to he<\/a> Ministry of Investments, Regional development and Informatization of the Slovak republic the IT sector is suffering from a global chronic shortage of ICT specialists. Women are under-represented at all levels of the digital sector in Europe. Despite the fact that the digital sector is growing rapidly, creating incrementally thousands of new jobs each year, the proportion of women in this sector is declining. Although there is a demand for ICT skills as well as rising unemployment, the EU is expected to suffer from a digital skills shortage by 2020. 52% of the EU population are women, but they represent only 17% of all ICT specialists and earn 19% less than men for the same work. In Slovakia, women only represent 13.7% of all ICT specialist, placing our country below the EU average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the study of the European Commission  Women in the Digital Age<\/a> the annual productivity loss for the European economy of women leaving their digital jobs to become inactive is calculated to be about 16.2 billion EUR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The international project PRACE<\/a>, in which Slovakia is represented by the Centre of Operations of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and which covers many of the HPC activities in Europe, brought attention to the examples of successful women working in this field in the Women in HPC<\/a>\u00a0publication. This publication is focuses on progress in the field of HPC and also on successful women in HPC sector. The number of women working in HPC is growing day by day, said Dr Sylvie Joussaume, the Chair of the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Slovakia, the AjTyvIT<\/a>&nbsporganization contributes to improving the balance of women in the IT fields by organizing educational events and courses for girls and women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An IT community portal - robimeit.sk<\/a> \u2013 publishes interviews with women in IT, bringing inspirational stories to the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Competence Centre for HPC in Slovakia<\/a> we follow the equal opportunity standards and adhere strictly to the anti-discrimination principles. We hope to join in the effort to increase the number of women studying or working in the IT field in our activities during the following year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UN Women announces the theme for International Women\u2019s Day, March8th, 2021 (IWD 2021) as, \u201cWomen in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world.\u201d On this occasion, the National Competence Center for HPC in Slovakia would like to extend the best wishes to all women and men to find the courage to challenge and lead our society to a positive change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"\"<\/a> The Slovak Recipe for Fair Play and Happier Players<\/strong><\/a> 25 Mar<\/span> -<\/span> Do you play games on your phone and sometimes feel like the game just doesn\u2019t understand you? Experts from Nitra, Slovakia, have used one of Europe\u2019s most powerful supercomputers to change that. Thanks to the Italian giant named Leonardo, they discovered how to read between the lines of player behavior and make the gaming experience more personal and fair.<\/span><\/div>
\"\"<\/a> Apply for the EUMaster4HPC Summer School 2026 focused on High-Performance Computing.<\/a> 23 Mar<\/span> -<\/span> From 5 to 14 July 2026, the EUMaster4HPC Summer School titled \u201cHigh-Performance Computing and Emerging Trends\u201d will take place in Luxembourg. The event will be held at the Marienthal Youth Center and the University of Luxembourg in Belval.<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the occasion of International Women's Day the team of the National Competence Centre for High-Performance Computing in Slovakia has prepared a few interesting facts about IWD. In the article you can read when and why the International Women's Day was established and when we started to celebrate IWD in Slovakia. You will also find out how women are represented in the areas of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), including information and communication technologies (ICT). We will bring your attention to inspiring Slovak initiatives and portals which actively address the issue of women's representation in the IT sphere. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurocc.nscc.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}