Equality in the MNCN

The National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC) is a research center of the CSIC that aspires to do science in equality.

In the research centers, it is common to hear that is a similar proportion of men and women that works in the scientific career. However, in some steps of the professional stabilization, the percentage of woman reduces in a significant way. From the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), there are plans and protocols of equality. This can be consulted in the following link: clic here.

In the MNCN, we see that the actual gender composition follows this pattern in all departments and we will like to know why:

Categoría profesional — Number of researchers that are in the three big categories of the scientific scale, depending on their gender. The category of "Research" includes Distinguished researchers, Ramón y Cajal researchers, senior scientists, scientific researchers and research professors.

Investigadores del MNCN separados por sexo — Total number of researchers with permanent positions (Distinguished Researcher, Senior Scientist, Scientific Researcher and Research Professor) by department according to their gender.

We wan't to understand what type of support we give to our researchers and young investigators, and how this can affect to their possibilities to have success in their scientific career.

The initiative of promote the activities to improve the gender relation in the research field of the MNCN has been awarded by the CSIC with the award of the equality in the innovation line project.

The members of the equality commission in the MNCN:

Miembros de la comisión Mujer y ciencia — From left to right, and from top to bottom: Marta Barluenga, Biodiversity and evolution biology department researcher; Ángel Garvía, curator and manager of the mammals collection; Pilar López García-Gallo, Deputy Director of Communication and Scientific Culture; Elena Daniela Concepción Cuevas, PhD researcher in the Biogeography and Climate Change Department, Judith Morales, Deputy Director of Research and Ecology Research, and Robert Wilson, Deputy Director of Training, and Biogeography and Climate Change department researcher.

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