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The cost of ‘care’ in neoliberal academia during the COVID-19 pandemic: Women a...
França, T.; Vicente, M.; Godinho, F.; Padilla, B.; Amâncio, L.; Alexandre, A. F.The literature shows that throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, in the different regions of the world (Europe, Africa, Asia, North America and Latin America), women academics submitted fewer articles and grant proposals than their peers who are men because, in addition to the increased burden of domestic work, they devoted more time to teaching activities and to the demands of students, than to their research activ...
A lei da paridade numa perspetiva de género: testemunhos de deputadas dos grand...
Azevedo, J.; Santos, M. H.; Amâncio, L.O estudo apresentado neste capítulo foi realizado com o objetivo de analisar as alterações ocorridas na política portuguesa 10 anos após a promulgação da Lei da Paridade. Centrou-se, especificamente, nas mudanças ocorridas nas relações de género nos principais partidos políticos com assento parlamentar (i.e., no BE, PCP, PS, PSD e no CDS-PP). Nesse sentido, foram realizadas entrevistasindividuaissemiestruturada...
Research agendas of female and male academics: a new perspective on gender disp...
Santos, J. M.; Horta, H.; Amâncio, L.The presence of gender disparities in academia was assessed by analysing the characteristics of the research agendas of academics. Multivariate analysis of variance and structural equation modelling coupled with multi-group analysis were used to identify different gender trajectories. The research agenda preferences of women were less risky and less focused on fields likely to lead to scientific discovery, but ...
Gender equality and modernity in Portugal. An analysis on the obstacles to gend...
Amâncio, L.; Santos, M. H.In this review article, we argue that the transformations related to the modernisation of Portuguese society triggered by the implementation of democracy did not fully accommodate gender equality. In particular, when we consider the areas where the most progress has been made in keeping with a broadly shared urge for modernisation, education and science; whereas women have contributed to boosting the Portuguese...
Articulações entre vida pessoal, familiar e profissional no contexto das instit...
França, T.; Godinho, F.; Padilla, B.; Vicente, M.; Amâncio, L.; Fernandes, A.As desigualdades de género na academia neoliberal têm vindo a ser abordadas através de diferentes perspetivas: articulação entre vida privada, familiar e profissional ; divisão desigual do trabalho administrativo ; expectativas dissemelhantes em relação ao trabalho emocional ; assédio moral, entre outros. A pandemia exacerbou estas desigualdades, ao mesmo tempo que trouxe novos desafios para as docentes e inves...
Gender dynamics in elementary school teaching: the advantages of men
Santos, M. H.; Amâncio, L.This article presents a study that identifies the gender dynamics prevailing in a specific context of tokenism – elementary school teaching – in which the members of an otherwise socially dominant group are proportionally scarce – men. The results contradict Kanter’s (1977) theory by showing that male elementary school teachers do not experience the tokenism dynamics. In line with Williams’ gender perspective a...
Em busca da igualdade. Percepção da justiça e divisão do trabalho doméstico - m...
Amâncio, L.; Correia, R.Tendo por objectivo identificar eventuais mudanças no tempo dedicado ao trabalho doméstico por homens e mulheres, no período de 12 anos, este artigo analisa as horas gastas por homens e mulheres no trabalho doméstico e a sua percepção da justiça dessa distribuição, através da comparação dos dados obtidos nos inquéritos do ISSP (International Social Survey Programme) sobre família e género de 2002 e 2012 (2014 e...
Gender and nursing in Portugal: the focus on men's double status of dominant an...
Santos, M. H.; Amâncio, L.This article presents a study that sought to identify the gender dynamics prevailing in a health-related context of tokenism - nursing - in which the members of a dominant group in society - men - are proportionally scarce. Specifically, this study aimed to consider how men experience their integration into a feminized profession. Furthermore, the individual experiences and professional dynamics were placed in ...
Gender inequalities in highly qualified professions: a social psychological ana...
Santos, M. H.; Amâncio, L.Research in social and political psychology contributes towards understanding the persistence of job market gender segregation prevailing in recent decades, the consequences for those involved and their reactions when having to cope with gender inequality. Within the framework of the literature on shared ideologies that justify and legitimize discrimination against women, this article focuses on Portugal and an...
Numbers do not tell the whole story: gender and medicine in Portugal
Santos, M. H.; Amâncio, L.; Roux, P.Despite a progressive increase in the number of women in medicine, gender inequalities remain. This article presents a study analyzing the gender dynamics of tokenism in the medical field in Portugal, through the experiences of male specialists in female areas and female specialists in male areas and through their strategies for coping with such situations. We conducted individual, semi-structured interviews wi...