Try it. Ask a child to draw a scientist. The vast majority will draw a man, most likely with glasses, a white coat, and wild hair, like Einstein. It's the image most often repeated in books, comics, TV series, and movies they watch, even in textbooks. A stereotype that shapes children's imaginations, despite the efforts of recent years to combat it, and that has a detrimental effect on children, especially girls, who still grow up thinking that science isn't for them.

The writer Jane Lazarre, one of the first to write about the ambivalence of motherhoodShe stated: "I firmly believe that stories of motherhood, of any kind and stage, must be explained if we are to make our way between idealization and demonization."

Sometimes we don't want to love or take responsibility for what it entails; we just want to be loved, no matter how or by whom. It's absurd and immature, but that's how it is. The goal seems to be not just being loved, but rather establishing mature and healthy relationships with others, thinking about what we contribute, and not demanding that those who care about us fill the voids of our own deficiencies. I learned all this in therapy, what do you think? It hasn't gone as badly for me as it did for Sara Bosom, has it?

A 69-year-old woman died this Wednesday morning in a house fire that burned down a third floor apartment in the Castellassa passageway in Terrassa (Vallès Occidental). The Generalitat Fire Department received the alert at 6:19 a.m. and immediately activated five units: three water trucks, a ladder truck, and a coordination and command vehicle. However, upon arrival, they found the fire already fully developed.

Fina's birth was traumatic: her daughter was born with the umbilical cord tied around her neck, and any movement she made could have been a risk to the baby. Four long hours of labor and forceps delivery resulted in the safe and sound birth of the baby. However, her pelvic floor was doomed, and she has had to learn to live with urinary leakage. Susagna had a kidney and her uterus removed to prevent the progression of her bladder cancer. A couple of years ago, she had an ostomy placed on her, and she has had to get used to doing it "by force." normal life with a hole and a sphincter bag in the abdomen. However, for a long time, its head was disconnected from the pelvis downwards.

It's no secret that the automotive sector is still highly masculinized and pays little attention to gender inequalities. new Citroën study In the United Kingdom, it goes further and highlights the difficulties and hostility that many women encounter when buying a new car.

One in six people suffers from infertility problems, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), and one in 10 children are now born through assisted reproduction techniques in Spain—in 2022, there were 39,546 babies, according to the Spanish Fertility Society (SEF), out of 16,719 born. in vitro (IVF) and 31,635 artificial inseminations (AI). Although the success of these techniques is indisputable, the figures already show that going through an assisted reproduction process is not a piece of cake. The success rates, which depend on age and other factors, are 13.7% in the case of artificial insemination, and 43.8% in each cycle ofin vitro which reaches embryo transfer (when the embryo is placed in the uterus), which occurs in 60% of the cycles initiated.

My pregnancy went very well, overall. I was lucky enough to feel physically well, so the nine months flew by without me even noticing.

It seems paradoxical that, in a predominantly female sector, where women are the main customers and represent the bulk of the workforce in the fashion industry, very few reach the top of the pyramid. According to the latest data, the female presence on the boards of directors of Ibex35 companies is less than 25%. However, the European Commission has established that, by 2026, at least 40% of the members of the boards of directors of listed companies must be women. In general management positions, the figure is even lower. We spoke to some of the fashion designers and executives who are leading a change towards equality in the sector.

Spain has to promote a law that expands and recognises all forms and areas of gender-based violence, among them the vicarious violence that the murder of the two girls from Tenerife at the hands of their father reflects, in a crime that also sought to harm the mother and ex-partner of the aggressor. This was defended this Saturday by the Minister for Equality and Feminisms of the Catalan government, Tània Verge, who urged the state to speed up the transposition of international law, which already provides for this and other forms of gender-based violence.