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The molecular biologist\u00a0Margarita Salas<\/a>\u00a0, one of the most important Spanish scientists of all time, said that there was a time when, despite having already started her scientific career, some colleagues referred to her as ‘Eladio’s wife’.\u00a0“I knew what it was to be discriminated against or, what’s more, to be invisible,” she declared.\u00a0Something that, although it may seem like an anecdote, is far from being an exception.\u00a0Moreover, this ‘invisibility’ has been an unwritten norm in the scientific and research trajectory of many, many women.<\/p>\n

Fighting this invisibility of women scientists is one of the reasons that motivate the celebration of\u00a0the International Day of the Girl and Woman in Science<\/a>\u00a0every February 11.\u00a0A day in which we vindicate the need to promote female references in research and in the technological field, to break stereotypes and promote scientific vocations among young women.<\/p>\n

Getting more women to direct their future towards science also means increasing the possibilities of promoting research with a gender perspective.\u00a0In such a way that progress is made towards a science of higher quality, more complete and that benefits the whole of society (women and men).\u00a0As stated by\u00a0Audrey Azoulay<\/a>\u00a0, Director General of UNESCO, with this “humanity can only win, just like science.”<\/p>\n

The challenge is not small nor will it be easy to achieve.\u00a0According to the\u00a0Scientists in Figures<\/a>\u00a0report\u00a0, the percentage of female researchers in Spain stands at 39%.\u00a0It is true that it represents an advance of eight percentage points compared to two decades ago, but, if we maintain this rate of growth, the objective established by the Strategy of the European Research Area that half of the scientific staff in Europe are women will be achieved in 2045, fifteen years later than planned.\u00a0And that if current growth is maintained, because since 2009 the percentage is stagnant at 39%.<\/p>\n

7.6% of female references in secondary school books<\/strong><\/h4>\n

There are other data that are also worrying.\u00a0For example, according to different studies, the textbooks used in secondary education, precisely in an educational stage in which the academic future begins to be determined, and therefore work, barely contain 7.6% of female references, or only 12% of academic appointments correspond to women.<\/p>\n

The leap to universities, where 70% of research is generated in Spain, does not improve the situation.\u00a0In fact, despite the fact that women make up 57% of the total student body, in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) degrees, female enrollment barely reaches 28%.\u00a0Some data that represents a setback.\u00a0To cite an example.\u00a0Just two decades ago, women accounted for more than 60% of the student body enrolled in mathematics, a percentage that now falls short of 40%.<\/p>\n

Underrepresentation in STEM careers<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The underrepresentation of women in STEM is even more surprising when we know that, in both the science and engineering branches, female students obtain a performance rate (credits exceeded over those enrolled) up to six percentage points higher than that of male students. men, and a success rate (exceeded credits of those presented) also higher.<\/p>\n

This inequality is especially worrisome when the main employment niches are in the technology sector, with a tendency to increase rapidly in post-covid society.\u00a0Therefore, if we do not improve the percentage of women in STEM fields, we run the risk of a double gender gap: in studies and in the labor market.<\/p>\n

There are many causes that explain this imbalance: the prejudices and gender stereotypes that link girls and young women, especially to care (hence the feminization of studies such as Teaching, Medicine or Nursing);\u00a0the need for more examples of female leadership in these areas;\u00a0the difficulties added by motherhood, or gender bias in the selection and promotion processes of scientific personnel.<\/p>\n

The University has to react<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Faced with this situation, universities have the opportunity, and the duty, to react and become agents of change to advance towards a science, and therefore also towards a more egalitarian society.\u00a0And so we have assumed.\u00a0Innovatia 8.3<\/em><\/a>\u00a0;\u00a0Women with science<\/em><\/a>\u00a0;\u00a0They are Pioneers<\/a>\u00a0;\u00a0SUPERA<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(for the acronym in English of Supporting the promotion of equality in research and academia);\u00a0The\u00a0UJI-Lamarr<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Girls 4 STEM programs<\/a><\/em>\u00a0are some of the many initiatives that have emerged on Spanish campuses to recognize the role of women in science, technology and innovation and thus break the stereotypes that hold back the vocations of girls and young people .<\/p>\n

This commitment to equality is also institutional.\u00a0CRUE Spanish Universities<\/a>\u00a0has for the first time a\u00a0Delegation of the Presidency for Equality Policies<\/a>\u00a0, and has incorporated equality as a transversal value in its recent University 2030 strategy.<\/p>\n

The pandemic widens the gender gap<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The objective we pursue is none other than to continue advancing in gender equality.\u00a0To this end, we intend to promote, in collaboration with governments \u2013central and autonomous\u2013, measures to balance the presence of women and men in the various professional categories of Teaching and Research Personnel (PDI);\u00a0eliminate gender bias in the student body and the Administration and Services Personnel (PAS);\u00a0advance in co-responsible conciliation;\u00a0correct the gender gap in research, and continue to visualize and promote female leadership in research, transfer and innovation.<\/p>\n

For this reason also, this February 11, 2021, which is celebrated in the midst of a pandemic that is widening the gender gap in science, we claim to continue moving forward to meet the objectives set by the United Nations General Assembly to promote the full participation of women and girls, and contribute to the recognition of women scientists.<\/p>\n

It would not be reasonable, nor smart, to waste half the talent of the world’s population and, even less, in the face of challenges as profound as digital transformation, the new green transition or the take-off of digital intelligence.<\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong> Eva Alc\u00f3n Soler is Rector of the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) of Castell\u00f3n and delegate of the Presidency of the CRUE for Equality Policies at Universitat Jaume I<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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