Four professors from the University of Padua have been included among the 100 experts in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The project – an online database of women’s excellence – is called “100 Women Against Stereotypes” and aims to give the Italian scientists more media coverage and to identify authoritative voices that can contribute to public debate at institutional or In other contexts.
The first 100 experts have been identified in the field of hard sciences, “a sector historically under-represented by women and at the same time strategic for the economic and social development of our country.” The plan, however, is to continue to expand over time, to reach further discipline and to act as a tool for researching authoritative sources to contribute to public debate, even beyond the boundaries of the media.
The scientists
The Paduan scientists reported are:
- Giovannella Baggio, Professor of general medicine and president of the National Center for Health and Gender Medicine;
- Patrizia Burra, Gastroenterologist and current vice-rector for post-lauream training;
- Daniela Lucangeli Expert in psychology of development and learning and a vice-rector of school-university-work continuity;
- Antonella Viola, Winner of an Erc Advanced Grant, which deals mainly with immunology and immunotherapy.
The project
The project “100 Women Against Stereotypes” starts from the consideration that the media rarely take into account the voice of women as experts; this happens even in 82% of cases, according to the Global Media Monitoring Project 2015. The project’s creators, Giovanna Pezzuoli, Luisella Seveso and Monica Azzalini, wanted to try to reverse this trend by creating a database designed to collect female contributions to the world of research, from politics to science.
The project was carried out by the Pavia Observatory and the GiULiA Journalist’s Association, with the technical participation of the GENDERS Center of the University of Milan and Wikimedia, in collaboration with the Bracco Foundation and with the support of the Representation in Italy of European Commission.
For information, please write to cares@osservatorio.it. Expert selection criteria are listed in this document.
