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## Mariam Tórtola: "Women have to work much harder to get their research and professional value recognised".

12/02/2024 |
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"Women have to work much harder to get their research and work recognised", said physicist and science communicator Mariam Tórtola during the lecture "Towards gender equality in science" that she gave at the Universitat Jaume I on the occasion of the commemoration of the Day of Women and Girls in Science. The researcher assured that there are disciplines, such as agricultural sciences, in which the female effort is double that of men and other disciplines, such as humanities, have an index of 1.5, but that in all of them women have to work harder and better to obtain the same professional recognition.

The director of the Doctoral School of the Universitat de València made a historical overview of some of the women who have made contributions to science and explained how the statistics show that, although the situation has improved in the university stages and also in doctoral studies, the reality is that access to a research career is more complicated for women. In her opinion, we should focus on three types of actions: attracting talent, encouraging its development and combating gender bias.  
  
In the first case, Tórtola believes that stereotypes must be broken and female role models must be offered, especially in the early stages of education, to encourage interest in STEM disciplines. In the second case, in addition to favouring egalitarian environments and co-responsibility in the non-professional sphere, the researcher is in favour of active equality policies that take into account unfavourable situations for women. The actions of the third would focus on combating gender bias and situations of discrimination and, especially, harassment.

After her talk, the physicist joined an open dialogue with three UJI researchers: Iluminada Fuertes, from the Department of Financial Economics and Accounting; Jéssica Izquierdo, from Audiovisual Communication and Advertising, and Desirée Mena, from the Department of Nursing. Fuertes explained that she became aware of the gender differences when she had to give visibility to women's research and that in her field, economics, these differences, which are more serious in the private than in the public sphere, lead to precariousness and poverty.  
  
Jéssica Izquierdo, who directs the Observatory of Media Content and Platforms at the UJI, highlighted the importance of equality in media structures, and explained how power structures then affect the content that is shown. Finally, the researcher Desirée Mena, who focuses her research on obstetric violence, said that there are issues, such as the one she is researching, in which society is not able to recognise violence against women during pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding, and this prevents such violence from ending.

The lecture and the round table were preceded by an institutional lecture in which the rector of the UJI, Eva Alcón, claimed "the need for greater participation of women in science in order to achieve more complete research that reaches the whole of society". Alcón assured that the Universitat Jaume I is working with commitment to have "a more plural and open science, because future challenges require all research capacities", regardless of gender.

More information: [https://www.uji.es//investigacio/base/cultura-cientifica/pc4/acc-divulga/11-feb/base/actual](https://www.uji.es/investigacio/base/cultura-cientifica/pc4/acc-divulga/11-feb/base/actual)

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