The participation and visibility of women in scientific and technical disciplines is improving but there is still room for improvement in the design of studies and their recognition



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## The participation and visibility of women in scientific and technical disciplines is improving but there is still room for improvement in the design of studies and their recognition

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The UJI commemorates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with several institutional activities and the participation of its scientists in talks and colloquiums.

The rector of the Universitat Jaume I, Eva Alcón, commented during the opening of the activities to commemorate the Day of Women and Girls in Science that the data of the public university of Castelló show that "progress has been made in the participation of women in the direction, management and training linked to scientific fields", which must be consolidated and strengthened "because we still have room for improvement".

The percentage of female students enrolled in the degrees of the School of Technology and Experimental Sciences has increased by four points to 32%. In terms of research, in five years, the UJI has gone from having 43 women in charge of contracts to 67; and from 77 in competitive projects to 132. In addition, half of the institutes are directed by women, although this figure is lower in the case of the management of Espaitec companies or in the number of female professors.

The first academic authority has especially thanked the women researchers and scientists of the UJI for their work because "your daily activity is the best way to vindicate the contributions of women to science, innovation and transfer. And your example is essential for girls to have close and tangible references, so it is important that the university brings the research work to schools and institutes with talks and visits".

In turn, Eulalia Pérez Sedeño, Professor of Science, Technology and Gender at the Institute of Philosophy at the CSIC, said she was in favour of programmes to encourage female participation or reforming the structure of institutions as strategies to curb gender stereotypes, but she believes that the change must go further and proposes a series of actions in the field of methodology and epistemology.

In her opinion, efforts must focus on building knowledge that does not discriminate and cannot be used to maintain the subordinate nature of women; to achieve this, disciplines must be approached with a new perspective and the methodological biases in hypotheses or scientific-technical practices that place men as the sole subject and object of scientific knowledge must be analysed.

To achieve this, the professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science recommends identifying, in the relevant bibliography, the differences and similarities of sex/gender; reviewing, from a gender perspective, the theories and concepts of the area; analysing whether the object of study contributes to or diminishes inequality and examining, from this perspective, the questions posed in the research and the hypothesis of the study.

This was followed by a round table moderated by Mercè Correa Sanz, director of the Doctoral School, with the participation of Eulalia Pérez Sedeño; the Universitat Jaume I researchers Pilar Safont Jordà (Dept. of English Studies), Irene Epifanio López (Dept. of Mathematics) and Esther Castillo Gómez (Predepartmental Unit of Medicine) and the technologist Silvia Estupiñá Ariño (EFI).

The scientists agreed that there are still gender biases to overcome in terms of the number of women in the degrees most closely linked to science and technology, their participation in more technological departments in companies, the differences in attitude in teaching or research practice or the social, family or personal pressure to which they are subjected when exercising various roles. They also highlighted the importance of education in this area and the fundamental role of the media in making women's contribution to science and technology visible.

During the weeks before and after the commemoration, researchers from the public university of Castelló have travelled to schools in Benassal, Castelló de la Plana, Nules, Oropesa del Mar, Sagunto and Vila-real to give talks and offer practical activities. On the 15th, Rosa de Llanos, lecturer in Microbiology and researcher in opportunistic microbial infections, will take part in a round table at the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA-CSIC) in Paterna (Valencia).

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