Caption: SWE - Proceedings of the First International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists
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Table 2: Total Registered Women Professionals in 1962 Architects Chemical Engineers Chemists Civil Engineers 217 497 916 169 Electrical Engineers: Professional Electrical Engineer Associate Electrical Engineer Assistant Electrical Engineer 2 2 3 Mechanical Engineers: Professional Mechanical Engineer Plant Mechanical Engineer Junior Mechanical Engineer Certified Plant Mechanical Engineer Mining Engineer 1 Sanitary Engineer 18 Surveyors: Private Land Surveyors Cadastral Land Surveyor Mineral Land Surveyor 13 The NSDB has as one of its programs the development of scientific manpower, which is a need in the industrial development of a developing country like ours. It has stressed the intensification of programs for the improvement of basic education in science. Summer science institutes for elementary science as well as for secondary science and mathematics teachers have been conducted. Studies have been made to improve the curriculum introducing science and mathematics subjects in elementary and high school levels. Scholarships have been awarded here and abroad to selected talented students to pursue science and engineering courses. The NSDB has a program of training its own technical personnel and personnel of other agencies to upgrade the professional education and research skills. This is done through periodic in-service training programs and through fellowships granted abroad. As of May 1961, women constituted 50 percent of the total working age population (10 years old and over) of 17,250,000. About 40 percent of the female population (8,625,000) are in the labor force, with about 3,000,000 actually employed. Despite fluctuations in the woman labor force from 1957 to 1961, its growth of 19 percent has outstripped the increase in population which was 10.7 percent over the five-year period. Increasing participation of women in the economy of the country can be attributed to significant changes in the economic life and in the social customs and modes of living of the people. Other factors are A-15
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