The #MeToo movement and other women’s empowerment movements have raised awareness about hostile conditions for women scientists, stimulating revisions of norms of conduct for scientific societies and institutions (1, 2). Specific problems confronted by female researchers, however, are often deeply rooted in national and regional culture. Latin American women scientists, for example, are immersed in a society where culturally ingrained masculine pride (“machismo”) is normalized (3, 4) and deeply intertwined with the scientific endeavor.