ERIC Number: EJ1427978
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-2637-9112
EISSN: EISSN-2637-9120
Unmothering the Conversation on Gender in Academia
Mara Silva Hope; Ana Luisa Muñoz Garcia; Lorena Medina Morales
Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, v17 n2 p79-99 2024
The number of academic women working in universities has increased significantly in Chile. This article analyzes discourses on gender in the Chilean higher education system coming from academics working as scholars in the educational field in private and public universities in three different regions of the country. Based on a large qualitative study on research policies, we revisited data from 43 semistructured interviews with feminist poststructural discourse analysis (FPDA) to reflect the ways gender policies on research are being designed, justified, and resisted within academic spaces. The results show that the promotion of gender policies has been reduced to an idea of women as a homogeneous category, leaving aside a complex comprehension of politics of care and gender, without incorporating intersectionality in the discussion. This has an impact on the resistance to the advancement of gender policies in research and the perpetuation of sexism within academic spaces.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Research Methodology, Classification, Females, LGBTQ People, Intersectionality, Gender Bias, Gender Discrimination, Gender Issues, Sex Stereotypes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Chile
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