Almost 51,000 Cuban women work in science and technology

Around 51,000 women carried out scientific and technological activities in Cuba in 2023, confirmed the National Statistics and Information Office (ONEI), in the latest edition of its yearbook.

The group appears in the occupational category of managers, technicians, administrative, operators and service workers, and with 50,633, represents the largest number in the last three years, the source itself specified.

ONEI stressed that the figure represents an exponential growth since 2020, when there were 49,958, followed by 2021, with 42,623, and 2022, with 48,088.

The number of physical workers in the science and technology sector in 2023 amounted to 91,130; according to their educational level, most of them in higher education, in addition to categorized researchers, especially professors, technologists and technicians.

In that period, investments in both cases totaled 6,939,000 pesos, the bulk of which was dedicated to research and development, apart from innovation, and in other actions.

In terms of innovation patents applied for and granted, the Cuban Industrial Property Office registered 55, of which 17 were national and 38 foreign.

The National Statistics and Information Office, in its annual report, also mentioned the titles of serial publications in science and technology, the registration of industrial designs, invention patents by country, science, technology and innovation entities and by type of institutional organizations.