Women, science and society

The 6th of February in Rome took place the presentation of the National Observatory on Women Health (Osservatorio Nazionale sulla Salute della Donna, O.N.Da.). The project, resulted from the need to increase the attention on female health, has among its aims the study of several issues connected to woman’s health: basic and medical research, resources’ allocation, information, teaching, education and prevention about well-beign promotion, and, last but not least, the equity with regard to health and the study of gender differences in these contexts.
At the event were present various spokesmen from the research and institutions areas.
During the presentation Observa made public the results from its latest survey “Women, science and society”. The study, realized on a representative sample of Italian population, stressed the differences between women and men about perception of opportunities and risks connected to science and technology.