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International Women’s Day 2025: Celebrating Women in Science
Supporting the prosperity of women in science fields benefits the bio/pharmaceutical industry.
The world is celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8, reviewing the current state of gender equality in workplaces and seeking out opportunities to reduce potential disparities. For the bio/pharma industry, promoting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects and careers and increasing support for women within the industry to progress further in their career paths are ways that gender equality can be improved, particularly at more senior corporate levels.
Below is a selection of recent coverage from Pharmaceutical Technology® tackling the issue of women in STEM.
Fostering STEM Careers for Women
In this video interview, Agnes Cwienczek, director of Product Management at ArisGlobal, chats about how women can be supported in the pharmaceutical industry and other STEM fields. “While more and more pharma companies have established dedicated STEM programs and are fostering related career paths, men continue to outnumber women in this field across the globe, particularly at the higher levels,” she says.
Leaving STEM Skills on the Table
This article explores why investing in STEM programs for girls in an education setting and then supporting women as they excel in their professional careers is key to ensuring that vital highly skilled personnel are not left behind.
https://www.pharmtech.com/view/leaving-stem-skills-on-the-table
Inspiring and Supporting Women in STEM
For this video interview, Pharmaceutical Technology® sat down with Sabine Gölden, eLearning & Training Lead at MAIN5, a European consulting firm, about her experience working in the pharmaceutical industry and her perspective on gender equality in STEM fields. “Gender should never be the basis for deciding which field of study is right for you, regardless of any evolutionary advantages or disadvantages. Ultimately, someone’s path should be determined by their unique talents, passion, dedication, and interests—not by their gender,” she notes.
Women, STEM, and AI in Pharma
Women bring a unique perspective to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the pharmaceutical industry. In this article, the various benefits and opportunities that can be gained from women being involved at all levels of development and use of technological advances are detailed.
https://www.pharmtech.com/view/women-stem-and-ai-in-pharma
Research, Diversity, and AI
Jean Redmond, chief operating officer at Biologit, discusses the importance of diversity in research, the unique role women play in the field of AI, and what can be done to enrich programs to encourage girls to pursue jobs in STEM, in this video interview. “Women in STEM need to be intimately involved in the development and deployment of AI to ensure it is built ethically and representatively and in a fit-for-purpose way for problems that affect women,” she remarks.
Support and Empowerment
In this video interview, Michelle Bridenbaker, COO of Unbiased Science, provides her perspective on how women can be empowered to excel in these crucial roles, as women provide unique and important perspectives. “The pharma industry should absolutely be investing in and promoting STEM career paths for girls. It’s incumbent on them to do so. It’s about investing in a sustainable talent base, and about doing the right thing by half of the population,” she asserts.
