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There is cautious optimism about the equality of men and women in companies and public institutions.

At least, the researchers from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), Inocencia Martinez and Maria Dolores de Miguel is.

Both have held on the occasion of International Women's Day, a relaxed chat about the difficulties of women in society and have concluded that we still have a hard time ascend to positions of responsibility and decision making.

One of the main reasons for not more women occupying leadership positions is as manifest, family responsibilities.

"It's still the woman who takes care of the family, although in recent years we have seen that man becomes more involved," reviewers.

Both extrapolates the case to the area where most familiar are: the university.

Inocencia Martinez, a professor in the area of ​​Management, says that in the UPCT no barriers for women to get an employment contract with appropriate professional category accreditation "," but once we formed a family with children, for many of us have a hard time investigate continuity and proper concentration or research stays, reducing the capacity and researcher successful, resulting in less job promotion.

This reality justifies the lower number of women professors that exists in the Spanish University in general and in the UPCT, in particular. "

During the talk, Maria Dolores, Professor of Economics, Sociology and Agricultural Policy exemplifies the family problems of women to have one of the PhD students who is responsible is Muslim and has just become a mother.

Soon have a conference in Palermo and she is ready to go, "he is to take the girl and her sister going to stay taking care of her when the mother is in the papers."

Nevertheless, both agree that society today "better admits" there are women in certain positions, such as in a team of Government of the CCAA, a municipality or university.

"It was previously thought that the woman was only to be Minister of Health and Family and now there are more broadmindedness, and we are assigned other duties" manifest while they expect society continues to evolve to improve the work-life balance familiar with the work and responsibility of who should participate men a reality, because that implies that "engage more at home and, above all, who enjoy more of their children, participating in their education, training and care, which close ties with them. "

Sexenios OF TEACHERS AND RESEARCH

On the other hand, the professor of the School of Industrial Maria Socorro García Cascales participated in a colloquium at the Regional Assembly with women in many other fields of work.

In it he exhibited figures that show gender imbalances in the University.

"A curious fact is that the number of presidential terms obtained by the Teaching and Research of the UPCT.

In the first case (usually the period of reading of the doctoral thesis corresponds) the percentage of women who have obtained is 75% while that of men is 72%;

however, in the case of the second presidential term (which usually coincides with childbearing women) the percentage of women drops to 31.6% of men and only 64% ", exemplified García Cascales.

The teacher recognized that the percentage of women among UPCT PDI has increased in recent years, from 16.5% in 2009 to 19% during 2013/2014, but remembered still below the average in the Spanish (22.7%) polytechnic and is much lower than the percentage of women, almost 60% between the Administration and Service UPCT.

Globally, yes he was pleased that the percentage of female professors in the Spanish public universities comes and 20.7% compared to 13.8% were ten years ago.

In relation to students, Cascales García lamented that the percentage of women enrolled in studies in Engineering and Architecture branch has barely increased over the last twenty years, from 24.8% to 25.9%.

Finally, Professor Area Projects Engineering UPCT defended the importance of regarding choosing profession, citing among his people to his grandmother, a teacher during the Second Republic and her thesis director, Professor Maria Teresa Lamata.

Source: UPCT