I have worked in 4 countries: in Spain, in the United States, in England, and Germany. I was only six months in Iowa, USA, and in a small city, so perhaps I didn’t get to see the situation of science in that society. In England, I was at Cambridge University, which had fantastic programs for scientific dissemination. Neither of them did I feel significant differences with Spain in the role of women in the scientific field. At least from my point of view at the time, which might have been naive. In Germany, I worked in a laboratory with very few women. Besides, those few abandoned the scientific career to be mothers. The social and family pressure for women to dedicate themselves full time to their children is firm. Consequently, there are very few women, and those have to fight very hard. They often meet very high barriers due to being women. Moreover, even though one might think that in Germany, where the head of state is a quantum chemist, it would be different.