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SYWQ: Symposium Hidden Variables: Contributions of Women to Quantum Physics

SYWQ 1: Hidden Variables: Contributions of Women to Quantum Physics

SYWQ 1.3: Hauptvortrag

Donnerstag, 13. März 2025, 12:00–12:30, HS 1+2

Roller-coasting women scientific trajectories: New frontiers to accelerate (quantum) science — •Marilù Chiofalo — Physics Department, University of Pisa, Italy, W4Q, Labodif School

Science is objective in the results that are obtained within the perimeter of scientific thinking and related methods. In an oxymoron, science is also subjective in the trajectories of the scientists who obtain those results, everyone in their way.

While subjectivity is important for everyone, for women scientists it seems to hardly find a visible, comfortable, truly-free space where to be authentically represented: consequences are the leaky pipeline where many careers disappear, and the unconventional curves often characterizing scientific trajectories. Shared by any other working or social context, this is a preeminent condition in scientific and highly technological environments. In fact, in the last 30 years the limited number of women in science has been recognized and addressed as a crucial problem, to be overturned via equity-diversity-inclusion policies, though with incremental results.

In this talk, I will elaborate on questions that emerge from these reflections. Why progress has so far been incremental? Which effective actions for a concrete transformation? Which impact for everyone?

I will explore these questions by resorting to gender-studies frameworks and by roller-coasting illuminating non-conventional, curved, trajectories of quantum women scientists. Valuing subjective trajectories and objective results, can this make science environments comfortable for women and accelerate (quantum) science?

Keywords: Quantum science; Gender studies