I am so happy about the answers! I agree with all of you because I would say that there is not a bad way to tackle this problem. Every way of fighting is very welcomed. Every little thing that you can do in your day to day could mean a big step for someone that comes after you.

Yes, it depends on the institute, the country… it also depends…

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I would say we are more or less in the same page. I would just stress that even if ‘not all the labs’ and ‘not all the situations’ are the same, it exists a general, common environment that is opressive towards women and other collectives (at different levels, in different moments). However, itis true that there is a need for solving…

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Hi! Thanks for your answer!

I agree with you, that is for sure necessary. However, nowadays we have more female students than male students. Still, PI possitions are ruled by men. I think that until women do not reach possitions of power as men do (Country level proportions) we will not obtain equity.

So the point is: HOW to pave the way to…

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Dear all,

My name is Eva Maria Gomez Alvarez, I am a new member of Plantae! As a feminist and a plant biotechnologist, I would like to launch a question that is going through my mind for weeks now: How do we apply a gender perspective in our day-to-day work? I am gonna suggest some solutions that I have been thinking about:

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Dear everyone! My name is Eva Maria Gomez Alvarez, I am in my second year of the Ph.D. in Agrobiodiversity in the PlantLab (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, PISA, Italy). I was born in Valencia, Spain, where I studied plant synthetic biology for several years during my bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology, I am also an ex- IGEM student…

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