Conveners
Gender Equality in Physics
- Mariam Tortola (IFIC-UV)
Gender Equality in Physics: Optics
- Mariam Tortola (IFIC-UV)
Gender Equality in Physics: Physics and maternity
- Pas García (UV)
Gender Equality in Physics: Round table
- Ana Isabel Morales Lopez (IFIC)
In March 2013 the COST Action MP1210 The String Theory Universe was initiated for a duration of four years. The objectives were mainly scientific, but we were comitted to take a series of actions to address the problems that women that want to pursue a scientific career confront.
Given the huge imbalance in the area (only 15% of the Action members were women) we thought that the problems were...
Organization of gender-balanced events: a case of practice, National Meeting in Optics 2021
Speaker: Martina Delgado-Pinar, Vice Chair of the Women in Optics and Photonics Committee of SEDOPTICA, in representation of the organizing committee of RNO2021
https://www.rno2021.es/#comite-organizador
A clear example of the gender imbalance in STEM fields is the under-representation of women...
Motherhood has a huge impact on the careers of women scientists. With regards to the impact of family life on the work of male and female researchers, the evidence shown here indicates that having children clearly seems to be detrimental to a woman’s career in science. For men, however, if family does have an effect on their work, this effect is more positive than negative. It seems to be...
