Archive for March 1st, 2010

Data vs. Reality

Monday, March 1st, 2010

A recent article, written by Ángeles Caso in the supplement of La Vanguardia last Sunday 21st, highlights the shocking data about long-term academic women in Spain, which lays down an image on professional women that is not really a capture of the Spanish reality. Data show that there are only 12 women among the 120 long-term academics of the Royal Academy of Doctors (10%); 4 among 46 of the Royal Academy of Veterinary Sciences (less than 9%); 3 among 36 in the Academy of History (8%); 3 among 44 in the Academy of Pharmaceutics (less than 7%); 3 among 48 (6%) in the case of Engineering; 2 among 60 (3%) in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando; 1 among 37 (less than 3%) in the case of Moral and Politics Science; 1 among 42 (just a little bit more than 2%) in the case of Economic and Financial Sciences; 1 among 48 (2%) in the case of Medicine; 1 among 54 (less than 2%) in the case of Exact, Physics and Natural Sciences; and none among the 38 (0%) in the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation… If someone from abroad reads these data she/he will be convinced about the fact that in Spain there are almost no women professors, no artists, no historian, no pharmacist, no veterinarian, no writer, no doctor, no researcher, no lawyer, no judge… She/he would just think we, women in Spain, still live like 50 years ago, are semi-analphabetic and shut away at home…  As Ángeles Caso says in her article: The Institutions of the “Spanish Intelligence” are almost exclusively in the hands of men. So there is still a lot to do in terms of equality.