Author Samia Littly Jahavely Fernandez Güimac Researcher at the National University Toribio Rodriguez de Mendoza (Peru) PhD Student in Applied Chemistry and Life Sciences at Toyohashi University of Technology (Japan) Introduction Since I was a child, I've heard phrases like "science is for men" or "women should study easy careers". While studying Environmental Engineering, I observed that less than one-third of my classmates were women, and barely 50% of them managed to compl