GENDER, SCIENCE AND ANALYSIS

Since GENDER AND SCIENCE is a much discussed topic I desire to express my viewpoint. In my research activity I have never felt discriminated since woman. I am against quotas for women in science, and fortunately in Italy they have not been introduced (at least up to now). Pink quotas have a very negative effect, since in a system with pink quotas there would be the doubt that prizes, grants, important positions got by women are due to their gender and not to their intellectural contribution. Last but not least, pink quotas represent a discrimination against men.

In my scientific life I have felt discriminated in some occasions, but not because of my gender, instead because I am not an analyst. This in Italy, only.