Welcome to the Glass Age

186 and encouraging the next generation to follow suit [11]. Women share this commitment across different stages of their careers, from early career professionals with 1-5 years’ experience (80%), experienced professionals with 10+ years’ experience (83%), and re-entrants to tech —women who have returned to the industry after taking a career break (88%). These figures indicate that satisfaction of women in tech improves as they progress in the industry and is positively influencing their intent to stay. Globally, nearly nine in ten women tech professionals (89%) say they would recommend a career in the tech industry to the next generation of high school and female undergraduate students. Glass ceiling, sticky floor and glass cliff in the world of glass Women in academia, researchers and technicians, suffer most of the mentioned problems; this leads to wage gaps including in public organizations such as universities and R&D centers. The Spanish Organic Law 3/2007, for the Effective Equality of Women and Men, established the obligation of designing an Equality Plan in all public bodies and companies. In public R&D institutions as CSIC, important progress has been achieved but important differences remain, such as: Figure 12.3. Protest of women attendees to the PNCS congress in Saint-Malo 2018, demanding parity in the invited talks.