On gender blindness, footprints and bias in biology: Facts and thoughts Authors Neus Carbó Carbó Departament de Bioquímica i Biomedicina Molecular. Facultat de Biologia. Universitat de Barcelona DOI: https://doi.org/10.2436/20.1501.02.224 Keywords: gender blindness, unconscious footprint, propagation of stereotypes, paradox in biosciences, co-responsibility in leading change Abstract Although the figures both for teaching and research staff and for students in the biosciences tend to give the impression of relatively little inequality with respect to the female gender, hidden biases persist which are probably deeply rooted in our culture, revealing the existence of gender blindness in our field as well. Thus, even under a simple analysis, concepts such as the “glass ceiling” or the “leaky pipeline” can be quickly identified in academic bioscience careers. Even among female students, who form a young collective fully trained in gender concepts, a bias is detected when assigning the characteristics of a “good teacher” to male figures more often than to female ones. It is time to reconsider, at all levels (teaching and research staff, group and project leaders, students), the gender stereotypes that we are still dragging along and that need to be changed in order to put an end to this implicit gender blindness. Author Biography Neus Carbó Carbó, Departament de Bioquímica i Biomedicina Molecular. Facultat de Biologia. Universitat de Barcelona Llicenciada (1988) i doctora (1996 - premi extraordinari de doctorat) en biologia per la Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Des de l’abril de 2005 soc professora agregada del Departament de Bioquímica i Biomedicina Molecular (DBBM) de la Facultat de Biologia de la UB, amb docència continuada en els diversos graus de la Facultat de Biologia, així com en el Màster de Biotecnologia Molecular. Poc després d’aconseguir la meva plaça fixa, havent passat per places precàries de professora durant força anys, vaig establir la meva pròpia línia de recerca sobre noves teràpies en càncer. He publicat més de noranta treballs en revistes internacionals, la majoria sobre investigació del càncer, he dirigit cinc tesis doctorals, diversos treballs de final de màster (TFM) i múltiples treballs de final de grau (TFG). Entre 2007 i 2011 vaig entrar en l’àmbit de la gestió departamental, exercint de secretària del departament, i des del gener de 2019 compagino les tasques acadèmiques i de recerca amb la gestió institucional: soc membre de l’equip deganal de la Facultat de Biologia (secretària acadèmica i presidenta de les Comissions de Doctorat i d’Igualtat). Vaig participar en l’elaboració del III Pla d’Igualtat de la UB, formo part de la Comissió d’Igualtat de la UB i de la Comissió de Seguiment del III Pla d’Igualtat de la UB. 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