EDITORIAL

WOMEN AT (SCIENCE) WORK

Women are half of humanity, half of history, half of the labor, half of the knowledge, and only get a fraction of recognition.

History has not been so fair to women, as we owe to many with forgotten multiple, great discoveries that have gone unnoticed too often or signed with a male pseudonym. Other times they just have been mocked. But this is changing: the work of women in the field of science is increasingly visible, thanks to the struggle of women and allies, however, there is still a long way to go before society gives women all the recognition deserved for their enormous contributions in all fields, especially in science.

It is not desirable for humanity to ignore half of the possibilities and solutions. Diversity shows, again and again, its value and function in terms of survival and evolution: development accelerates, respect grows, the environment improves, we move hand in hand, and with empathy, this is the way it happens when a woman is in charge. But there are no exclusive qualities of one genre or another. Instead, there is a multiplicity of ways of creating valuable knowledge for the rest of us and what surrounds us.

Paving the way, understanding, allowing, and recognizing the work of women in the various fields of science is a way of taking care of ourselves and moving forward hand in hand.

Yara Patiño-Estévez, EIC

Writer, editor, science communicator, and art curator