The researchers, who yesterday took over the Saló de Cent in the presentation of the #100tíficas program, will promote the vocations of the students in half a thousand Catalan schools
Barcelona City Council and the Departments of Research and Universities and Equality and Feminism have joined this Thursday with dozens of scientists and researchers in an act that has vindicated the importance of effective equality in science and research.
For the fifth consecutive year and on the eve of the celebration of the Day of the Women and the girl in the Sciencethe program has been presented at the Saló de Cent #100tifican initiative of the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI) and the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), through which women involved in research and development in science and technology give talks in schools to serve as references for the girls so that they are encouraged to follow in their footsteps.
Five years
The programme, which this year celebrates five editions, will be taught in more than 500 schools throughout Catalonia and will have more than 560 women in this field, who will present hundreds of projects to the students primary school as well as ESO, with the intention of offering female “references” to boys and especially girls. This is how the mayoress of Barcelona, Ada Colauwho has presented the start of the act and in which she has thanked the professionals present for their participation so that “no girl feels that her own science studies are not for her”.
In fact, Colau has emphasized that only 23% of the management positions in this field are occupied by women and that only 7% of women scientists have honorary degrees.
social barriers
“A world that does not have the work of women is a half world”, added the ‘councillor’ of Education, Josep González-Cambray, who, along with the ‘councillor’ for Universities, Joaquim Nadal, it has placed the accent on coeducation policies. “It has been normalized for many years that women have jobs with less social recognition. We must stop perpetuating those roles,” Gonzàlez-Cambray insisted.
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For her part, the ‘Councillor’ of Igualtat i Feminismes Tània Verge has focused on the need to incorporate the gender perspective in scientific studies to evaluate the effects of medicines, among other issues, on women, and has recalled that when Some effects on women such as those related to menstruation were not taken into account, despite the fact that half of the population is female.
The director of programs of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology BIST, Nuria Bayó, has set coordinates and consequences of the current situation: she has recalled that only 24% of research positions or tenured professors are occupied by women, which speaks of the “social, mental and environmental barriers” that women scientists must face.