women researchers

Women in research continue to be a minority and there is no evidence of spontaneous movements towards less gender segregation in Europe. Only 8 of the 28 countries of the European Union have 40% of women researchers. And not only are they less, but they also receive less recognition of their work. In 1993, Margaret Rositer described the so-called Matilda Effect to express the existence of prejudices to the recognition of the achievements of women scientists Keto Max Burn, whose work is often attributed to their male colleagues.

Twenty years later, the magazine Nature devoted a monograph to women in science, where it was affirmed that science remains "institutionally sexist" and that women scientists are less paid, promote less and obtain fewer projects than their male counterparts with similar qualifications. Today the research career of women is characterized by an intense vertical segregation, the so-called 'glass ceiling'.