Should abortion laws be struck down by the US Supreme Court, the lives of many underprivileged women would be at risk.

Biparental care is observed in less than 10 % of mammals and are often associated to monogamous relationships or immature offspring.

Maternal care comprises many different types of behaviours that, perhaps most prominently, include diverse ways to feed their young.

The general model for evaluating scientific production fits into the accountability system: a way of measuring scientific output which does not usually acknowledge the presence of gender imbalances in academic institutions. Here we take the need to rethink this system and the indicators it uses

The following text is a summary of the full text available in Spanish and Catalan. Anna Veiga is well known for her pioneer work in the field of in vitro fertilisation in Spain. She was the first test-tube baby's scientific «mother» in Spain in 1984. She

ABSTRACT Scientific and, particularly, medical discourses have played a key role in the creation and dissemination of the standard model of motherhood envisaged as a vocation in itself, an exclusive task, women’s natural destiny and their self-realisation. Here we explore the origins of this social model