Experts say that the country needs to attract more local women of the Emirates to work in various fields of activity: in science, industry, and the technological sector. This will help reduce the UAE's dependence on foreign personnel.
Ph.D. Georgeta Vidikan, associate professor of engineering systems at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, during her lecture, which was held as part of the program on gender and public policy at the Dubai School of Public Administration, announced that "an investment in the training of emirate talent, are part of the strategy for developing local production capacities in the UAE and reducing the impact of the foreign labor market. "
Achieving this goal will be quite difficult. Today in the UAE, only 7% of all employees in the field of science, technology and innovation are citizens of the country. I must say that most of the graduates of the relevant educational institutions in the UAE are women, but only a quarter of them work by profession.
In 2007, only 19% of university graduates in mechanical engineering, construction and manufacturing were women. As a result of a study conducted among 2520 female students, it was revealed that most of them (78%) do not intend to work after graduation. Of these, 20% associate the work of engineers with labor in the "field conditions", in the open.
However, almost half of the respondents said they were interested in a career in science, technology, or engineering. The study also showed that students from less privileged and wealthier families are more inclined to achieve high results in their careers and studies than students from privileged classes. The latter often rely on the ties of their near and dear ones.
