Ongoing
At least in one thing, we will finish 2014 as we started, with a new section. We started the year with the creation of the “Witnesses” section and ended with the creation of the “In action” section. They share some characteristics with others: in both, scientists are the protagonists and, in both, interviewees focus on the experiences of the trade.
In the section “In action” we will see scientists in action. They will tell us what they do, how they have come, what has led them to be scientists, what concerns them, what they want... Researcher and person, we collect both sides of the same coin. Another distinguishing feature is that young researchers and women will be the protagonists. And why young researchers and why women? Because the data show that women are much more abandoned than men.
The distribution of researchers in the doctoral thesis is average and average according to the UNESCO Women in Science report (2013) — 49%/ 51% in Spain, 47%/ 53% in France — as the research career progresses, men predominate: In Spain, women represent 38% of researchers and 26% in France. In Ikerbasque, an organization based on excellence, the landscape is even worse: it currently has 177 high-level researchers and only 19% are women, and the Fellow Young Researchers programme also has fewer women than men.
The reasons for this are many and complex. Is excellence in science possible without equality?” was one of the roundtables that met in the analysis section. Because the debate of equality and excellence is multidimensional. The section “In action” aims to address one of those vertices, the visibility of women’s contribution to science. After the news you will see the first: Enara Herran Martínez, pharmaceutical researcher.
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