Of Glass Ceilings, Velvet Circles and Pink-Collar Ghettoes:Lilliam Álvarez MS PhDSecretary, Cuban Academy of Sciences.

Of Glass Ceilings, Velvet Circles and Pink-Collar Ghettoes:Lilliam Álvarez MS PhDSecretary, Cuban Academy of Sciences. MEDICC Rev. 2019 Oct;21(4):15-17 Authors: Reed G Abstract She was a country girl from the northeast-ern Cuban province of Holguín, her father a farmer, her mother a teacher. Fast forward a few decades: Dr Lilliam Álvarez mastered mathematics, physics and nuclear science, finally specializing in numeric solutions to differential equations. She spent 20 years at the Cybernetics and Physics Institute in Havana, half that time as deputy director. For another eight years, she served as di-rector of science in the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment. Full professor and senior researcher at the Uni-versity of Havana, she is a member of the national academic authority that awards doctoral degrees in math and is Cuba ́s ambassador to the International Math-ematical Union. In 2000, she was inducted into the Caribbean Academy of Sciences, and in 2008, was elected a full member of the Third World Academy of Science (now The World Academy of Sciences). But over time, her rich bibliography, with titles the likes of Anumerical technique to solve linear and non-linear singularly perturbed problems began to be peppered with other provoca-tive gender-informed work: Women doing hard sciences in the Caribbean, Are Women Good for Math? and her 2011 book Ser mujer científi ca o morir en el intento (Be a Woman Scien-ti...
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