Marta Burgay at the National Geographic Festival in Rome

Women and science: real problem or outdated cliché? Today, April 18, 2018, researcher Marta Burgay will discuss it in Rome at the National Geographic Festival

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These days, two important events for INAF overlap: Astronomy Week and the National Geographic Festival in Rome. In the latter case, we are pleased to inform our readers that Marta Burgay is currently in Rome to share her insights on an important and delicate topic that has recently been highlighted in various public meetings: women and science.

Today, in 2018, any work experience in a research center, whether you are a man or a woman, will certainly convince you that gender discrimination is a thing of the past and remains at most confined to those less educated segments of the population and perhaps, in the workplace, more to the private sector than the public one. While this is certainly true, sometimes it’s the less obvious, more insidious things that don’t make and will never make the news, that make a difference in a workplace.

On this and much more on the same topic, the researcher from Cagliari (but originally from Aosta Valley) will speak today, April 18, 2018, along with other distinguished women in science: Barbara Mazzolai from IIT, Lucia Votano from INFN, and Barbara Negri from ASI, moderated by science journalist Enrica Battifoglia.

There is no doubt that the occasion will also be an opportunity to learn about and listen closely to the achievements reached in their respective fields of study by this prestigious group of scientists, such as robotics, pulsar study, space research, and dark matter study, as well as all the issues related to the dissemination of these topics to the general public.