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Engineering laboratories full of girls.
The image, striking by unusual, is given this month at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), for the first time the Mare Nostrum Summer Scientific Campus, where females predominate, at a ratio of 2 to 1.
In fact, of the 120 participants coming from all over Spain, only 40 are men.
"The technology no longer needs muscle", reminds every week to the new youth groups the Vice Chancellor of Research of the Polytechnic, Beatriz Miguel.
The girls are the majority in the Summer Scientific Campuses (CCV), for excellent students of Secondary, because they are the ones that have the best academic records, but still they are few that come with the idea to be engineers in a future.
The gender imbalance is one of the issues of concern to all polytechnics, as acknowledged last Friday in Cartagena the rectors of the alliance UP4.
"I'm very lonely in Technology classes," says the Valencian Clara Albiach, one of the students of the Scientific Campus who has clear vocation as an engineer.
"I'm a lot of hacking computers, ever since," he says, aware that he must battle "to overcome the roles of society that tell you what girls should do."
"Social pressure influences a lot," acknowledges the young student.
"I have been told that what I liked was a boy thing."
Similar experiences have also had the Extremadura Raquel Francisco, who stressed that "choosing Technology as an elective would lose the year".
Faced with any kind of prejudice, Madrilenian Lucía López de Pascual is clear about her potential as an engineer.
"Since I was little I wanted to be an inventor," he recalls.
Youth is no obstacle for these pre-engineers to see the difficulties they will face because of their gender.
"Girls have a hard time getting to be heads in any profession," says the burgales Celia Garcia.
"You just have to look at IBEX companies," adds Clara.
The CCV of the Campus Mare Nostrum that form the Polytechnic of Cartagena and the University of Murcia is also serving to foment regional tourism, by making known to young people of all Spain places as attractive as the cartagenera coast, the Agrupa Vicenta mine or the cathedral Of Murcia.
An example of this is the Valladolid Alicia García-Arroba, who took advantage of her participation in the Campus to spend a weekend in La Manga with her parents.
The Summer Scientific Campuses are organized by the Campus of International Excellence of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (Fecyt) of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport and are sponsored by La Caixa Social Work .
Source: UPCT
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