[Rigel Salinas-Gamboa]

I completely agree with your view. I would add that the head of the institutes play a very important role giving the example of what it would be the ideal in this matter and that they care; this also pushes to other institutions worldwide to do the same (although it doesn´t always work). Many institutions are putting more attention to the men: women ratio, although in the overall landscape it is still not enough.
In my opinion, the next step is to women take the benefit of this moment: to openly talk about the benefits of a more equal science environment -also with male colleagues- and to give the women around us more support -specially between women-. In addition to this, to us as women: be the bravest, mark the step of the relationships we want, say it when it´s uncomfortable, notice when we are not saying something and notice why are we stopping ourselves. This is a key factor.
Finally, my favourite part is to notice that very often in society, women are referred as how they “are” and men as what they “do”. For me it has been very important and admittedly very hard, to differentiate both extremes and try to compensate them in a way that we treat people as people and not in a particular way, just because they have -or not have- certain reproductive organ.

At the end it´s a big, not easy effort from everyone but it is so necessary!