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The Councilor for the Area of Culture, Youth and Equality, David Martnez, has accompanied this morning the rector of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Alejandro Diaz, and the Vice Chancellor for Research, Beatriz Miguel, in the discovery of a plaque in honor of the Italian neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini and English mathematician Ada Lovelace, in commemoration of the Day of Women and Girls in Science.
David Martnez, thanked the work for equality carried out by the UPCT and has been confident that the girls of tomorrow fill the polytechnic university "because they are the best in these careers," he said.
In the same sense, the rector of the UPCT has indicated that “women are not at the same level as men, but that they exceed them” in the scientific-technological disciplines, revealing that the students of the Cartagena University have performance rates 10% higher than their male classmates.
The UPCT has discovered this morning the name of the most voted scientists in the popular consultation that has been held again on the occasion of this international day sponsored by the UN, which have been incorporated into its facade of illustrious in the R + D + i building from its Campus Muralla del Mar.
The chosen ones have been the Italian neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini and the English mathematician Ada Lovelace, of which the rector has emphasized that “it was the first one that knew how to see that computing served for much more than to handle quantities.
The first steps in Artificial Intelligence, thematic of which our last Doctor Honoris Causa is an expert, she gave them ”.
The objective of this UPCT initiative, which in previous years allowed the incorporation to this list of honor of the scientists Hipatia and Rosalind Franklin, is "to break down myths about the presence of women in science," said Alejandro Daz, pointing out as "an anomaly" that there are only 3% of women working in the computer sector and 8% of engineering technologists.
"We must see why women do not prefer technology to other fields of knowledge and claim the transformative role of technology in society and how it helps improve our lives to improve the social image of women in technology," he added the rector recalling the efforts in this regard of polytechnics.
"We hope to continue advancing in making normal what has not been so far, the presence of women on an equal footing in Science," he concluded.
In the popular vote, for which Rosalyn Yalow, Lise Meitner and Carolina Herschel were also candidates, more than half a thousand people participated.
The United Nations chose February 11 as the day to promote women's and girls' access to education, training and research in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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