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Women of the Italian Neutron Community

N scattering in Italy has been limited by the absence of even a small facility dedicated to neutron scattering for more than 20 years. However the community, active in all European facilities since 1980 thanks to the effort of several scientists, both women and men, is quite active in Europe and abroad. Apart from the difficulties in accessing high performance facilities and the limited resources available, the community does not suffer relevant gender inequality problems in terms of numbers. Indeed, making reference just to the national society, SISN, there are about 270 members and 45% of them are women. Unfortunately, gender inequalities are present as the women find it difficult to be recognized in terms of scientific roles but some of them in our community are now very important and represent a reference for the development of the activities. I am an old man and I can remember the evolution of the community during the last 50 years when the situation rapidly changed and I have also the memory of those who were present before I started [1]. Historically, almost no women were present in the early phase of neutron scattering in the 1950s and ‘60s when neutron scattering started. From the early ‘70s, because of an increased number of young science students, the number of women approaching science and neutron techniques started to rise. As a consequence, women of the Italian neutron community started to be present in the European landscape