Margaret cinquenne, asks Luke seienne" you schellettro you got it? ".
And Luke says," and yes, if not as I die? "
I liked the idea of \u200b\u200bstarting with a quotation from a movie title of a famous actor from my fellow countryman, Massimo Troisi, indimenticabile per la sua originale e intelligente ironia. Ma poi, confesso, sono rimasta
nell'imbarazzo tra: "Il postino", "Scusate il ritardo" e "Non ci resta che piangere", che mi parevano tutti piu' o meno azzeccati ...
soprattutto per le molte perplessita' e lo scarso entusiamo manifestati, piu' o meno apertamente, da molte colleghe chiamate a contribuire a quest'iniziativa.
Nel leggere le esperienze raccontate in precedenza su questo blog da varie colleghe - alcune delle quali appena all'inizio della loro carriera - ho puntualmente avuto l'impressione di ritrovare qualcosa anche della mia.
E' come se vi sia un filo conduttore che accomuna gran parte delle nostre storie personali al di la', ovviamente, boundary conditions that may have been also quite different.
And it 'probably the first fact of having a predisposition to scientific studies, a lot of curiosity' to the natural world and its phenomena, and often a certain spirit of adventure but also can not forget that we have been given the opportunity 'to grow from an early age' passion for the study, until the meeting, more 'or less random, more' or less precocious, with "the Mother of All Sciences", which made us choose the path that led us to make our profession of Astronomy.
But at this point it seems legitimate to ask the question: Is there 'maybe some difference in the path followed by our male colleague?
I guess the answer is no. In any event, in this regard, it would be interesting and appropriate to hear the voice of someone of "professional astronomer ...
For this reason, I particularly welcome and fully endorse the statement made earlier by Paul Edwards, who stressed that, when reading a scientific paper (as, I might add, a proposal for observing time, or submitting a research project ), not only do not notice if the author is male or female, but the thing is' totally irrelevant to us.
I always had the belief (or perhaps illusion?) That our country, at least in our area, was quite ahead of many other countries about the "woman question" and that, take rather, the real problem resided elsewhere and is that the opportunities' for growth and cultural approach to the world of science depend heavily on the social context in which an individual is formed, and today, in an ever more 'urgent, from the limited (and mostly' poor) prospects for integration into the work that the company 'now seems able to offer to young people.
So, my fear is that the "initial bias" of a blog devoted exclusively to the 'female world "is perceived by many as a sign of discrimination that probably does not encourage a large turnout.
However, as I note at least in Spain there is also a blog dedicated to: "Los JOURNALIERE Cosmicos" El blog de los profesionales astronomos, which, if nothing else, it balances a little 'things ....
Elvira Covino
"The young Einstein Marta dreams." So 'a little article appeared on page headline' Youth and School 'La Repubblica, a couple of years ago. An article which talked about science, the discovery that I had done some years before (the first double pulsar, exceptional laboratory to test relativity 'general immodest ed) during my PhD thesis. The journalist had made me pertinent questions, about my work in general, the discovery in particular, then seasoning it all with a pinch of anecdotal, but there was. Nothing compared to what happened 40 years ago in Jocelyn Bell, discoverer, along with his doctoral supervisor Anthony Hewish, pulsars: a meeting on women in science held in Turin little more 'than a year ago, Jocelyn Bell told how , while Hewish journalists asking questions about science, she was asked if his girlfriend, who wore bra size ... He then have given the Nobel for his discovery of his student, but she is not 'even been mentioned (and here we could open a long parenthesis on the Nobel denied to women in science, but maybe we'll talk another time.) Times have changed, machismo then there are clearly 'more' or when there 'is widely, at least in words, condemned and deplored. Unfortunately, however, 'I happen to notice, in some small things, even insignificant, a kind of machismo hidden, perhaps unconscious. If I say "cook" for example, the most 'comes to mind the fat lady who gives you the' scoop of the slop at the university cafeteria, but if I say "cook" conjures up images of the chef in his restaurant Vizzani luxury. If I am the owner an article about a scientific discovery can write "The young Einstein Marta dreams" but I never would dream of writing "The dreams of young Einstein Mario," would not be very serious, very professional, damn it! These things are minor, or anyone, but maybe they are a symptom of something more 'serious.