You know what worries me about the artificial intelligence revolution? That we're repeating the same old mistakes. And I say this while reading the results of a study showing how women adopt generative AI tools like ChatGPT, the most well-known, at a significantly slower rate than men.

Exactly seven days ago, the 23rd Medical Profession Conference was held at the Cerdà Museum in Puigcerdà as part of the Ramon Llull Summer University. The panelists were predominantly female physicians. In fact, in Catalonia, women are predominantly female in the medical profession, and among younger generations, the proportion is 70%. However, it wasn't until 2025 that a woman presided over one of the four Catalan medical associations for the first time. Specifically, this February 2025, Elvira Bisbe, an anesthesiologist at Hospital del Mar and until now vice president of the Barcelona Medical Association, marked a milestone by becoming the first female president of this association since its founding in 1894.

I just bought a recipe book. At the end, there are some blank pages for writing down your own recipes. I decided to write my own so I can cook up the UNESCO report for you. Women Lead for Learning (Women Leading Through Learning) published May 20.

If a year ago the unemployment rate among women was 10.9% in Catalonia, now the figure is four points higher (14.9%). If this same year the unemployment rate among men was 9.9%, now it is less than three points higher (12.8%). If then the gap between the two indicators managed to narrow a few tenths, now it has widened again by two points. "Women have been more affected than men by the adverse consequences of the pandemic on the labour market", summarizes a report by the International Labour Organization (ILO). "The impact of the pandemic on the labour market has a woman's name", agrees the CCOO syndicate.

The pandemic has a woman's name. The nurse who cares for covid patients, the assistant who looks after grandparents in nursing homes, the shop assistant who attends to you in the supermarket or the teacher who has ensured your children's education. Women are in the majority in seven of the nine professions that have been at the forefront of covid. They make up 70% of healthcare and pharmaceutical staff, 86% of cleaning staff and 84% of care home staff. These are jobs that are traditionally feminised, invisible, poorly paid and precarious - it often goes together - and which have a common denominator: caring for people. However, with this crisis, which is now a year old, they have been revealed as essential. "We are getting ahead thanks to women", says Cristina Sánchez Miret, PhD in sociology and lecturer at the University of Girona. In general, health crises hit the most vulnerable groups hardest and exacerbate existing gender inequalities. This happened with the Ebola virus outbreak in Africa and the Zika epidemic in Latin America.