Maria Bandeira using microscope.
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Since 2016 I have been involved in activities to improve our knowledge about the issues behind the bias of the presence of women in STEM. At the beginning, together my colleagues Dr. Rebeca Viana, Dr. Vera Scatena, and Ph.D student Pamela Santana, we started a study about the presence of women in Brazilian Botany in Brazil. We organized and participated in many events to talk about our studies and also to promote more discussion about the topic. During our studies, we learned about the first woman to work with botany at the bigger Brazilian Botanical Garden, Maria Bandeira. She was one of the pioneers in Brazilian science and had her history unveiled very recently. While our article is not published, you can check some of our results and theoretical approach in this conference abstract, about Social Diversity in Brazilian Botany.
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I also participated in many independent activities until 2020, including as a representative of graduate students and, after, of the postdoctoral fellows of the Bioscience Institute of University of São Paulo in the group IB Mulheres. This group was created in 2017 and it is composed of professors, students, postdoctoral fellows, and university employees, and aims to create space at the Institute for reflection, discussions regarding gender bias at the university. Another function of the group is to receive denunciations from women of the Institute, supporting and embracing them, besides to intermediate conflict resolutions when this is the case.
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