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To mark International Women's Day on March 8, the five women awarded the National Prize for Sociology and Political Science, granted by the CIS, wanted to define the key elements that make the research work of social thinkers different, their way of approaching topics, problems, questions and trends. Five sociologists, five professors, five trajectories, five visions, one common thread: to analyze and celebrate, from the Center for Sociological Research, the role of women in society.   Capitolina Díaz Martínez , National Sociology Prize 2025, “Women sociologists gave back to Sociology what the canon had left out: the body, everyday life, and real inequality . Classical Sociology understood society, and women sociologists explained how people live in it. Without women social thinkers, sociology has been more abstract than truthful.”   Inés Alberdi Alonso , National Prize for Sociology and Political Science 2019, “In addition to the usual topics in Sociology, women sociologists have studied some issues neglected by Classical Sociology. These sociologists have highlighted the importance of everyday life and have dedicated themselves to studying it. Within this context, they have emphasized the importance of care work, which is the foundation of human life .”   Carlota Solé i Puig , National Sociology Prize 2023, “Women social thinkers contribute topics to research that connect with the concerns, feelings and needs of their gender, as well as relevant issues in general debates of Contemporary Sociology, through the scientific method of an empirical science.”   Constanza Tobío Soler, National Prize for Sociology and Political Science 2021, “The very otherness of female scientists brings a perspective that allows them to ask different questions and consider different ways of seeking answers . This happened almost two centuries ago, when Harriet Martineau decided to empirically study society, including those institutions or social groups then considered of little interest, such as women or Black people. For the last few decades, female sociologists have been working in the vast, long-invisible field of care , built on the reciprocity essential for human survival. The growing and increasingly recognized presence of women enriches sociology and directs it toward new areas of knowledge about social reality .”   And María Ángeles Durán Heras , winner of the 2018 National Prize for Sociology and Political Science, concludes: “The greatest contribution of women social thinkers is to find the scientific gaps that have not been explored. The legacy of thousands of years in which women were excluded from the centers of thought production has hampered all scientific fields .”