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Which of the following statements is not true about Rita Levi Montalcini?
She discovered the nerve growth factor.
She stood out in the neuroscience field.
She became the first Nobel laureate to reach the age of 100.
She was an Italian politician after her retirement from science.
Germany, Austria and Switzerland celebrate Inventor’s Day on the 9th of November. Who is the inventor who described the frequency-hopped spread spectrum (essential for communication) and was born in this day?
Hedy Lamarr
Mary Anna Masihg Karlsen
Ada Lovelace
Katherine Johnson
Elizabeth Blackwell's status as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States is well known, however, how was she able to be accepted into medical school?
Her father used his influence with the school's dean.
She disguised herself as a man in order to attend medical school.
She was unanimously voted in by her all-male classmates.
She paid double the tuition of a male student.
Overshadowed, perhaps, by her more famous brother, who was the first female to discover a comet?
Barbara Kepler
Caroline Herschel
Katherine Wright
Grace Hubble
Carolina Herschell was the first woman in doing several things. In which activity was she not be the first woman in doing it?
First woman to receive a salary as a scientist
Frist woman to publish scientific findings in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
First woman to be awarded a Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1828)
First woman to have a PhD in astronomy
Out of 15 elements named after scientists, only two honor women. Curium is one. Which is the other?
Livermorium
Rutherfordium
Uranium
Meitnerium
Fabiola Gianotti is the director general of which science organisation?
CERN
LIGO
European Space Agency
ALBA
How many women today have received a Nobel Prize in sciences?
16
36
23
29
Emmy Noether was invited to join the Göttingen University in 1915 due to her expertise in:
Invariant theory
Quantum mechanics
Paleontology
Hilbert space
Who was a pioneer in nanotechnology known as “The Queen of Carbon Science”?
Rosalind Franklin
Mildred Dresselhaus
Irene Joliot-Curie
Nettie Stevens
Who was the first woman awarded with a PhD in Spain?
Margarita Salas
Fátima Bosch
Assumpció Català
María Isidra de Guzmán
Which group at ICMAB has exactly 50% of women and men?
PhD Researches
Technical Support Staff
Master Students
Senior Researchers
Who has been granted first with ERC Advanced Grant and later with an ERC Proof of Concept Grant?
Marta Mas-Torrent
Teresa Puig
Núria Aliaga
Mariona Coll
In 2020, the percentage of women in CSIC with the highest scientific scale (Research Professor) was about 26%, do you know the percentage at ICMAB?
15%
33%
53%
67%
What is the percentage of women researchers who are Tenured Scientists and Research Scientists at ICMAB?
15%
33%
53%
67%
5. In the history of CSIC, there has been only one woman as president, do you know her name?
Rosa Mendéndez
Emila Tamayo
Margarita Salas
Elvira Méndez
CSIC launched the “Women and Science Committee” to study the possible causes that make it difficult for women to enter and pursue a research career and actions, do you know in which year was this committee created?
2002
2008
2012
2015
With commitment towards gender equality, the ICMAB also created the Gender Equality Committee, do you know when?
2013
2016
2017
2019
Who of the following people is the coordinator of the Gender Equality Committee?
Pietat Sierra
Esther Barrena
Oriol Sabater
Riccardo Rurali
The ICMAB received the “Gender Equality Distinction” awarded by the CSIC in:
2017
2018
2019
2020
Out of 10 “Investigadores garantes” (Guarantee Researchers) in 2016 within the Severo Ochoa project, how many of them were women?
1
5
6
8
How many women from the ICMAB have received the award L'Oréal-Unesco for women in science?
2
1
3
4
At ICMAB we celebrate every year the 11F. When did the ONU declare 11th February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science?
1985
1995
2005
2015
Do you know what it is considered as “balanced representation” of women and men in the composition of evaluation panels, according to the 2007 Equality Law?
50 % of men and women
At least 45 % of women
At least 60 % of women
More than 40 and less than 60 %
One of this sentences is false:
Gender equality has been considered one of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
The World economic forum published in the Global Gender Gap Report 2020 that there is still a 31.4 % average gender gap that remains to be closed globally, predicting that the gender parity will not be attained before 99.5 years.
One of the actions of the EU’s new Action Plan on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment 2020–2025 targets a minimum women participation of 40 % in the digital and technology sectors
The EU will establish a European Girls and Women information and communication technology (ICT) day
According to a survey done by L’Óreal in 2015, which percentage of European citizens think that women do not possess the required capabilities in order to access high-level scientific positions? (The Guardian, 24/09/2015).
25%
33%
50%
67%
It has been recognized that the achievements of some women scientists are attributed to their male colleagues. Do you know how this effect is called?
Matthew effect
Domino effect
Matilda effect
Cinderella effect