Four female voices in science
Mar 05, 2018
Obstacles, virtues and experiences derived from being a woman in science.
Etiqueta: women and science
«Las mujeres de la Luna», by Daniel Roberto Altschuler and Fernando Ballesteros
Apr 25, 2017
Out of 1,600 craters in total, only 28 have a woman's name. The book calls attention to this and pays homage to these often forgotten historical figures.
Crazy about science
Apr 10, 2017
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
Rita Levi-Montalcini: Jewish, woman and scientist
Apr 06, 2017
Rita Levi-Montalcini’s life can be summarised in a single sentence: more than one century of struggle. Levi-Montalcini lived a hundred-year life during which she had to overcome, one by one, many obstacles keeping her from fully realising her personal project. Many would have given up
Women and science
Mar 06, 2017
Women have been traditionally excluded from the public sphere – education, politics, art and culture – and confined to the domestic sphere. This situation has experimented a slow steady change in different areas since the late modern period. A more liberal society has allowed the progressive incorporation of women to public life.
The science of difference
Feb 09, 2017
Women remained invisible in health sciences until the late twentieth century because they were not included in the cohorts used in researched studies. Thanks to the work done by different groups of feminist researchers, we were able to visualise the need to change those paradigms.
Interview with Londa Schiebinger
Feb 03, 2017
We meet Londa Schiebinger in Paris after her participation in the 9th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education, organised by the French National Centre for Scientific Research. Since 2011, this researcher and professor of History of Science of Stanford University (California, United States)
Breaking the glass ceiling
Jan 13, 2017
Women make up the majority of the university students at the beginning, but are progressively overtaken by their male colleagues, until they become an invisible minority in the highest levels of the system.
‘SheScience’, a monograph about science from a gender perspective
Dec 14, 2016
We analyse the situation of women in science, the effects of androcentric biases in research, and the potential changes that would come with more inclusive practices.
Jocelyn Bell: From star signals to gender discrimination
Jun 13, 2016
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The day 11 February 2016 will be difficult to forget for the members of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Valencia. Three major events took place at the same time to make it an ever-remembered day. First, one of the most important