The studio The visibility of Spanish scientists by Professor Pablo Francescutti of the URJC Advanced Communication Studies Group yields revealing results on the visibility of women scientists. For example, the male scientific sources cited by the leading Spanish press triple the number of female ones. Even more devastating: of the 2.077 experts referenced in science texts published by El País y La Vanguardia in 2016, 1.589 were men (76,51%) and 488 women (23,49%).

This study is no exception. Today there are numerous works that scientifically and objectively document that the treatment received by men and women and the science they produce is far from being the same. Many of these studies coincide in pointing out that the lack of visibility that female scientists generally have compared to their male colleagues is behind a large part of these gender biases.

The lack of female role models unconsciously causes this imbalance to continue, conditioning not only the career of female scientists, but also discouraging the incorporation of young people into the scientific world, much more influenced by models of femininity that leave little room for intelligence and leadership.

With this initiative, and coinciding with the World Day for Women and Girls in Science, from ESCET we want to give visibility to our scientists to help more and more girls opt for science.