Obtained the title of Pharmaceutical Chemist from Universidad de la República, Uruguay (UdelaR), and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Virginia Tech, Va, USA.
Women for Science Program
The Problem
Traditionally, women have been underrepresented in scientific and engineering research and in the technical work force.
Even though women are presently entering these fields in greater numbers, their careers tend to remain in the lower ranks of the hierarchy and women are still poorly represented at the decision-making levels. In particular, women’s membership in national science academies in the region is low – nowhere is it above 30%, and in most countries it is under 20%; women academy presidents remain a rarity.
Science and technology (S&T) capacity building in the region will require the full engagement and participation of women from the top decision-making levels all the way down to the grassroots. Moreover, a greater diversity of life experience and points of view will enrich the S&T enterprise as well as the societies it serves.
Barriers to women’s participation may vary somewhat from country to country, but share many common features: absence of role models – especially in the higher ranks of the hierarchy, isolation as minorities in a traditionally male discipline, the omitting or undervaluing of the contributions of women in science, and traditional cultural perceptions about the role of women.
Solution
Under the sponsorship of IAP, the Global Network of Science Academies, IANAS established the Women for Science Working Group (WfS-WG) in June 2010.
Overview of the Women for Science Program
The Women for Science Working Group (WfS-WG) will work with IANAS on understanding the impacts on women of the IANAS programmes and initiatives and help to ensure women’s participation. Women at the grass roots play a crucial role in providing water and fuel for their families.
WFS News
CALL FOR IANAS ACADEMIES: The Young Scientist Research Award: Women for Science IANAS 2024
[IANAS-WfS] Dr. Alicia Rojas winner of the Anneke Levelt-Senger’s Prize 2023
[GANADORES] IANAS WfS “Descubramos a las científicas Latinoamericanas” 2023
[IANAS-WfS] Dr. Mónica Mazariegos winner of the Young Scientist Research Award 2023
Dr. Andrea Rodríguez Sánchez – Winner of the IANAS The Young Scientist Award 2022
[NEW INVITATION] Join the STEM Women Global Network
Concurso de videos: “Descubramos a las científicas latinoamericanas”
[2° CONCURSO DE VIDEOS] “Descubramos a las científicas Latinoamericanas”
WfS Focal Point
Ana Denicola
Beatriz Marcheco-Teruel, MD, PhD
Dr. Beatriz Marcheco-Teruel is the director of the National Center for Medical Genetics in Havana, president of the Cuban Society of Human Genetics, and head of the National Advisory Group on Clinical Genetics at the Cuban Ministry of Public Health.
Carolina Alduvín Sainz
Bachellor on Chemical-Biolgical Sciences at Escuela Nacional Preparatoria, UNAM, 1972
Cecilia Bouzat
Full Professor of Pharmacology at the National University of the South (Bahía Blanca), Senior Researcher at CONICET, Argentina and Director of the Institute of Biochemical Research of Bahía Blanca (INIBIBB).
Cecilia Hidalgo
Academic Trajectory. Biochemist (1965); Doctor of Science (1969), Universidad de Chile (first person). Postdoctoral Fellowship (Fogarty Fellow), NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA (1969-1972).
Gloria Dubner
Gloria Dubner graduated in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and received her PhD in Physics from the University of La Plata (Argentina).
Henriette Raventós
Henriette Raventós, the IANAS Women for Science representative from Costa Rica, is a professor and researcher at the University of Costa Rica.
Judith Zubieta, Ph.D
She holds a PhD in Systems from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Senior Researcher at UNAM’s Institute of Social Research, a member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico and the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Liliana López
Professor of Geochemistry of the Earth Sciences Institute (Faculty of Sciences) at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV).
Dr. Milena Cabrera Maldonado
Dr. Milena Cabrera Maldonado is the first Dominican Pediatric Gastroenterologist. She graduated from the School of Medicine at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo and specialized in pediatrics at the Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital.
Neela Badrie
Professor Neela Badrie is affiliated with the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago and is also an attorney-at-law with the law firm of Thompson, Badrie-Maharaj & Associates.
Dr. Ximena Rocío Cadima Fuentes
Dr. Ximena Cadima’s field is research on genetic resources, cultivated agricultural biodiversity and its wild relatives, and family farming.
WFS Publications
Jóvenes Mujeres en Ciencia
Women for Science: Inclusion and Participation in Academies of Science
Educación en Ciencias Basada en la Indagación
Inquiry Based Science Education
Survey of Women in the Academies of the Americas
Mujeres Cientificas en las Americas
Women Scientists in the Americas
Jovenes Cientificas
Young Women Scientists
Women for Science Census Update 2014-2016