On 11 February, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science will be celebrated to recognise the fundamental role played by women in the scientific and technological community. This is a special date in the MP Lifts calendar to promote the talent of the increasing number of women who make up our staff.
Among many others, there are technicians and engineers such as María Ángeles Vílchez, who began her professional career as a trainee student at MP Lifts more than 20 years ago. Nowadays, she’s part of our R&D&I department.
“In my class (Industrial Engineering in Electronics in Seville) there were 8 women and 92 men, for example. Twenty years ago, there would have been 15% of women in technical careers; now, according to recent articles, it is about 30%, explains María Ángeles.
“We must generate opportunities and encourage girls from a very young age”, she says, motivating girls and women who want to start at STEM world (Science, Technology, Engineering y Mathematics) to lose their fears and to gain confidence, because “they will have a wide range of professional options in the future”.
“It is a long-distance race in which they will learn thousands of things and, with passion, in the end, they will be able to achieve what they set out to do”.
