What drove you to choose this career? Did you ever feel penalized as a woman? What advice do you have for young women who want to undertake a career in the science?
Students from the Liceo Classico Tommaso Campanella in Reggio Calabria interviewed astrophysicist and researcher Clementina Sasso, who told them about the issues she has encountered in balancing work, family and children.
Today, Clementina, who is 41, works at the Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory and is ESA spokesperson for the Solar Orbiter Mission.
A message for the girls? “Don’t let them get you down! Let your passion guide you and fight for your rights. You can do anything, believe it!”
The “Out of Quota” stories format was launched by the seventh edition of Coding Girls to present the silent route journeyed by young women who wish to help the community [see news: A Gentle Revolution].
Reaching gender equality in technical and scientific disciplines is one of the challenges addressed by the national Coding Girls Programme, promoted via a “hybrid” collaborative alliance involving the United States Diplomatic Mission in Italy, the Embassy of the Netherlands, Compagnia di San Paolo, Microsoft, ENI and a network of 32 academic partners. The protagonists are 15,000 young women in 24 cities. Coding Girls is a scalable and replicable model that is being experimented originally in Turin, Milan and Naples.
