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Cecilia Castaño is a Full Professor of Applied Economics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología. She has previously worked as a Visiting Fellow, Centre for European Studies, at Harvard University (2007) and was Director of the Research Program on Women and Information and Communication Technologies at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Cecilia started her career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Urban Studies and Planning Department (1985-1986) and moved on from there to Berkley, where she worked at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (1987). When she moved to Europe, she firstly worked at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Instituto de Sociología de las Nuevas Tecnologías, 1989-1997 and then at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, SERVILAB (Laboratorio de Investigación del Sector Servicios) (1998-2005). Cecilia’s areas of focus currently are “Women in Research and Employment: The Gap between women’s participation and position”, as well as a research project on “The Participation of Women in Decision Making”.