Women Just Wanna Have OR: Young Researchers Interview Expert Researchers

Operations Research Forum - Tập 2 - Trang 1-14 - 2021
Lavinia Amorosi1, Rossana Cavagnini2, Veronica Dal Sasso3, Martina Fischetti4, Valentina Morandi5, Alice Raffaele6
1Department of Statistical Sciences, Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy
2Deutsche Post Chair – Optimization of Distribution Networks, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
3Optrail s.r.l., Rome, Italy
4Vattenfall BA Wind, Kobenhavn, Denmark
5Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
6Department of Mathematics, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

Tóm tắt

Is the gender gap still a topic in the academic world and in particular in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)? What difficulties did women who pursue a career in academia have to overcome? What are the differences among countries and what has changed compared to the past? As women and members of a community of young researchers in Operations Research (OR), we have tried to find answers to these questions by interviewing a group of prominent female professors and affirmed researchers in STEM belonging to different generations, with dissimilar careers and experiences. We have discussed with them about awareness, leaky pipelines, mobility, mentoring, society, role of education, and more. Their motivating stories and opinions contained in this article have allowed us to extrapolate a portrait of what barriers women encountered in STEM in the past, but also what challenges and stereotypes are still to be overcome, striving to close the gap.

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