This year marks 120 years since Marie Curie won the first of her two Nobel prizes. In 1903, Polish physics and chemistry won the Nobel Prize in Physics. With this, Curie demonstrated two things to the world: the discovery of radioactive elements and that women could also play a transcendental role in science. Years later, in 1911, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her research on radium and its compounds. Although since then the role of women has been somewhat discreet in the scientific world, their importance should not be underestimated either, since they have had a key presence in recent decades in various fields.
Currently, despite the fact that the presence of women is progressively stronger and more abundant in technology, science, sustainability and innovation, there is still a lot of work to be done so that both sexes develop the most equitable involvement possible. To do this, society must eliminate a series of barriers that go through gender discrimination that makes a more egalitarian society impossible.
Rane Johnson, as Director of Research at Microsoft, already warned almost ten years ago that the reduced presence of women caused in society “a lack of diversification that hampers innovation”, for which reason “we need more women to be innovators”. added. With this, she lamented the low participation of women in technology projects and companies, derived from their scant interest in studying computer science in the United States; something that distanced them from Silicon Valley, the quintessential nursery of the world’s great technology companies.
To address the current situation, La Vanguardia will focus its next Talks on the challenges of equality in innovation. It will include the participation of Marta Melé, BSC computational biologist and For Women in Science awardee; Neus G. Bastús, researcher at the Scientific Institute of Nanotechnology and Inorganic Nanoparticles, and Vanesa Blanch, director of innovation at Mercadona. Together, they will analyze the challenges of women in an area that still has little presence today: This event will take place around a table that will be moderated by Susanna Quadrado, editor-in-chief of La Vanguardia Society.
The colloquium will take place at the Hotel Seventy in Barcelona on March 28, at 6:00 p.m. To attend, fill out the following form.
