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Name and Surname: Laia Guasch Querol
Degree date: 2005
Current job: Teacher
1. What attracted you to engineering?
My father was an engineer and therefore the world of engineering has been present in my life since I was very young. He always passed on to me a passion for this profession.
2. How did you experience your training?
From a good start, with the uncertainty of whether the choice was really the right one. But I soon realized that I had made the right decision. I was lucky enough to study engineering at the pioneering URV for its learning methodology, which made the training even more attractive. Despite the dedication involved in this type of career, I must say that I enjoyed it from the first moment.
3. Did you feel weird in a male environment?
In my engineering, specifically chemistry, there was a lot of equity in terms of gender, practically 50%, so this reality was not given.
4. Has your hard-working development surrounded by men been easy?
In my case I have always been very lucky with my work environment. In the first stage of work, colleagues have recognized my professional value regardless of whether I was a woman in a male work environment. Currently, in my work as a teacher, the number of women predominates over that of men.
5. How do you see the world of engineering for women today?
While many stereotypes still need to be overcome, I think the situation is slowly normalizing and it is becoming more and more common to see women engineers in jobs that have traditionally been held by men. Increasingly, based on my professional experience, we are beginning to be given the place we deserve regardless of whether we are men or women.
6. What challenges do we need to overcome?
While in my case I have not suffered any discrimination, the gender gap continues, so we must continue to work so that there is no such distinction. It is necessary to do this from a very young age by doing non-sexist pedagogy, offering references to girls and adolescents who doubt whether or not to dedicate themselves to STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) in the future. Another pending subject is related to family responsibilities that are associated with women in terms of family reconciliation and that today still limit the occupation of certain positions.
We must also overcome the limitations that we impose on ourselves to hold certain positions