The professional office of Sociology and other professions in women's key

  • Mª Amparo Almarcha Barbado Universidad de la Coruña
Keywords: Gender, professional trade, merit and effort, inequality and exclusion.

Abstract

From the dual professional and teaching perspective, it is a question of analyzing the differences and inequalities that happen to women, taking into account that there is a certain superiority related to merit and effort in the field of education. The effort of women is not rewarded in job market. There are more graduate women in quite a few spaces and disciplines, but the fact that they hold good positions in politics and as company directives it is still seen as something spectacular. The feminine gender is a "small" obstacle for that; also, inequalities and exclusions occur from the academic sphere to the professional one. The barriers continue to exist from teaching, where women scale in much smaller measures the chairs or the addresses of faculties, centers or departments. Domestic chores continue to exist and the family as a barrier. This is also constant and possible when one observes what happens in the professional development of Sociology and Political Science: downward figures increase concerning women’s participation as professors, department directors or deans, among other positions of relevance. It is clear that equality is not only a matter of laws, there is much more to bring into play.

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Published
2016-12-19
How to Cite
Almarcha Barbado M. A. (2016). The professional office of Sociology and other professions in women’s key. Investigaciones Feministas (Feminist Research), 7(2), 139-157. https://doi.org/10.5209/INFE.53777