Female scientists breaking barriers in research. Interview with Julie Tores

“Female scientists breaking barriers in research” consists of 7 interviews to Ulysseus female researchers that offer the opportunity to the general public to learn about existing challenges in society that have motivated these researchers to do research in gender studies. 

Some of the topics covered in these interviews include the underrepresentation of woman in local politics; public women, public power, leadership and underrepresentation; executive women’s career identities in the corporate business; gender based violence; female objectification in media; sexuality, disability and fundamental rights and research and gender equality policies in European universities, among others.

Julie Tores is a PhD student from Université Côte d’Azur (France) working at the I3S laboratory in Sophia Antipolis, France. The aim of her thesis is to use Deep Learning to detect objectification in movies. Therefore, she is interested in gender issues and, more precisely, in the representation of gender in the media.