The presence of women in the scientific field continues to present a significant imbalance in Spain and the world. Why do women stay away from this area? Are external or internal restraints causing this situation? How can we encourage and support young women scientists?
It is life, not a disease. This slogan appears on the posters of a successful and relevant awareness campaign of the Regional Government of Extremadura, which aims to alert the population about the medicalization of situations and states that are not a disease, and that can and should be solved with will, advice and mental and emotional hygiene. Medicalization has led to normal life circumstances and events being identified as pathological and treated with medication.
I present in this post the inspiring story of Eiko Hashiba, a Japanese banker who left her position to take care of her baby… and created a financial empire 10 years later. Having to resign from her position at Goldman Sachs made her question why consultants like her could not be outsourced, so as to have the possibility to integrate family and professional life. This was what she had in mind when, 10 years later, she founded VisasQ, of which she is CEO.
Every morning we wake up to debates about victims, aggressors, rights, false allegations… It is surprising, on the one hand, how many facts and figures are given, which are unrelated to each other and even contradict each other. In social networks such as Twitter, we witness a dance of information and denials, of unmasked hoaxes, of communiqués and declarations. Many of us wonder who to believe, what figures are authentic and how to check the veracity of the data. With posttruth installed in all spheres and ease of manipulation, what studies can we believe?
“I have learned that what qualifies people, rather than the decisions they make, are the causes for the decisions they make: the motivation that moves them.”
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