Published on 06.03.2023 under News, General, Equality of Opportunity, about matrix
#EmbraceEquity
International Women's Day 2023
This year's International Women's Day has the motto: #EmbraceEquity. Translated it means promoting justice or as we interpret it in the matrix Equality of Opportunity support financially. We are already committed to more equal opportunities in various projects. Together with people from projects that are close to our hearts, we want to make it clear why we are committed to more equal opportunities: #EmbraceEquity!
Ikram El Moussaoui
As an industrial engineering student, Ikram El Moussaoui knows exactly what it means to prove yourself as a woman among men. To ensure that this changes in the future, in addition to her studies, she also teaches MINT courses at the zdi center in Krefeld. She wants to encourage more girls to get involved with MINT: “Just under a month ago, a teacher approached me. Pupils were totally enthusiastic after my course, apparently because I was not a typical lecturer of such a course for them. You felt understood by me. That was the moment when I realized that I can and want to change something.”.
Carmen Ludwig
Carmen Ludwig is Head of the Start-Hub of the Körber Foundation. It has set itself the task of strengthening the potential of young people. Why is she committed to more equal opportunities for Generation Z? As a student, she would have wished for a start hub with many workshops, programs and encounters. Now she wants to make it possible for other young people.
Gerald Busch
Gerlinde Busch is the managing director of the Center for Self-Determined Living for Disabled People, Mainz registered association. As a blind lesbian woman, she also experiences discrimination herself. For this reason, she has been campaigning for more equal opportunities for almost 40 years. Since the 1980s she has been involved in the political movement for the disabled and for women's rights. It is important to her that women with disabilities are not perceived as a homogeneous group. “We are not all the same, but we are often perceived as such. That means there is not just one form of disadvantage for women with disabilities. A woman with learning difficulties struggles with different barriers on a daily basis than a mother with physical disabilities or a disabled woman with a migrant background. Real equity can only be achieved in a diverse, inclusive world.”
Julian Kofer
Juliane Kofer is project manager of the MINT campus and KI campus at Donors' Association. Equal opportunities for everyone is very important to her. She says: “As the daughter of a physicist, I had no major concerns about starting my studies in biotechnology. In our home, it was part of the process from the very beginning to ask each other questions, develop hypotheses together and explore the answers. And so I was playfully on the move in the MINT world early on. I am living proof: girls can and want STEM. Just don't invent gender-specific inhibitions for technical and analytical topics."
