A Comparative Study Of Gender Inequalities In Scientific Publishing and Its Impact on Career Building in Brazil And Argentina
This project looks at gender inequalities in scientific publishing and international collaboration and their impact on career building in Brazil and Argentina.
Despite sharing relatively similar national contexts, geographic proximity, and comparable historical and cultural experiences, these two medium-income Latin American countries have very different systems of higher education and R&D. Brazilian public universities have highly selective admissions processes and are deeply inequitable in terms of race and socio-economic background.
Public universities in Argentina are free and open to all, even if low-income students are in the minority. In order to establish a precise comparative model, this project focuses on two discrete academic populations: CONICET researchers and CNPq research fellows. These two groups represent the most productive and international academic elites in their respective countries, and total 10,619 in Argentina and 19,733 in Brazil.
The methodological design of this comparative research project will take a qualitative and quantitative approach involving: (1) a prosopography of the target populations, (2) a bibliometric study based on the complete publications of all the researchers (2013-2020), (3) a network analysis of collaborative research (2020-2020) and 4) a qualitative study using interviews, focus groups, and oral histories.
The quantitative approach will investigate differences in productivity, research collaboration, and recognition. The aim of the qualitative work is to analyze the impact of gender difference on research and the gender constraints present in research evaluation criteria required for tenure and promotion. This project will build on previous studies that have been conducted by a network of researchers in Argentina, Chile, and Brazil since 2014.
Researchers
Fernanda Beigel
Sociologist with a doctorate in political and social science who conducted postdoctoral research at the Centre de Sociologie Européenne (EHESS, Paris).
Fernanda Beigel with a doctorate in political and social science who conducted postdoctoral research at the Centre de Sociologie Européenne (EHESS, Paris). She now works as the principal researcher at the Institute of Human, Social and Environmental Sciences (INCIHUSA) of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET, in Argentina) and as Professor at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the National University of Cuyo (UNCu). She is a member of the International Sociological Association’s RC08 Executive Committee and an expert advisor to the Latin-American Forum on Research Evaluation (FOLEC-CLACSO). She was recently elected Chair of the UNESCO Open Science Committee. Academic Honors: “Bernardo Houssay” Award (2003), CLACSO Essay Award (2004), Honorable Mention for Scientific Value - Argentine National Senate (2017).
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Beigel, F. (2017) “Peripheral Scientists, between Ariel and Caliban. Institutional Capital and Circuits of Recognition in Argentina. The career-best publications of the researchers at CONICET” in DADOS, Vol. 60, no 3, 2017, pp. 825 a 865; Beigel, F., Gallardo, O. y Bekerman, F. (2018) “Institutional expansion and scientific development in the periphery. The structural heterogeneity of Argentina’s academic field”, Minerva, 56(3), 305-331;
Most Recent Books
Beigel, F. and Bekerman, F. (2019) Culturas evaluativas. Impactos y dilemas del Programa de Incentivos a Docentes-Investigadores en Argentina 1993-2018. CLACSO-IEC: Buenos Aires. Beigel, F. Ed (2019) Key texts for Latin American Sociology. London: SAGE.
Mario Pecheny
PhD in Political Science from Université de Paris III. Professor of Political Science and Sociology of Health at University of Buenos Aires.
Mario Pecheny holds a PhD in Political Science from Université de Paris III. He is professor of Political Science and Sociology of Health at University of Buenos Aires. He is also a CONICET researcher at the Gino Germani Institute in Argentina. In 2013, he was awarded the “Bernardo Houssay” National Prize in Social Sciences by the Ministry of Science and Technology (Argentina). In 2018, he was elected to be the Director of Social Sciences and Humanities at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina. He has extensively conducted research and published on health (HIV and AIDS, reproductive health, chronic illness, drug addiction), gender, sexuality, human rights and politics in Latin America and other regions.
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Prevención, promoción y cuidado. Enfoques de vulnerabilidad y derechos humanos (with José R. Ayres, Vera Paiva, Alejandro Capriati & Ana Amuchástegui, Teseo, 2018)
Políticas del amor: derechos sexuales y escrituras disidentes en el Cono Sur (with Fernando A. Blanco & Joseph M. Pierce, Cuarto Propio, 2018),
Ana Maria F. Almeida
Associate Professor at the School of Education, University of Campinas, São Paulo.
Ana Maria F. Almeida is Associate Professor at the School of Education. Her research examines the role of education in the intergenerational transmission of inequality, the processes and dynamics that contribute to the production of educational inequalities, and the effects of the international circulation of the theories, methods of analysis and rhetoric of validation on the production and dissemination of plans in the field of education.
She is one of the coordinators of Focus (Research Group on Education, Institutions and Inequalities). She holds a Master’s in Sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and a Master’s and a PhD in Education from UNICAMP. She has been a visiting scholar at EHESS, Stanford Center for Latin American Studies, and FLACSO. She is chair of the FAPSEP panels on Humanities and Social Sciences, Architecture, Economy, and Administration.
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS
ALMEIDA, Ana Maria F; Ernica, Maurício ; Knobel, M. . Doctoral Education in Brazil: Building Research Capacity and Training. In: Maria Yudkevich; Philip G. Altbach; Hans de Wit. (Eds.). Trends and Issues in Doctoral Education - A Global Perspective. 1ed.London: Routledge, 2020, v. 1, p. 36-64
ALMEIDA, Ana Maria F; Ziegler, S. . Qualitative Approaches to Education Inequality in Latin America. In: George W. Noblit. (Eds.). Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. 1ed.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Alejandra Ciriza has a PhD in Philosophy from UNCuyo, Argentina. She teaches philosophy and researches at UNCuyo and CONICET. She works at the interstices of feminist political philosophy and the history of feminine and feminist thought. Her research is on the intersection of class, race, and gender. Her work has been published in national, regional, and international scholarly journals. She has also contributed chapters to several edited volumes and edited a number of works. She is a militant feminist and defender of human rights.
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS
CIRIZA, Alejandra (2019) Horizontes temporales para pensar la emancipación. Leer en clave feminista y desde el sur. Mora (B. Aires) vol.25 no.1 Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires jun. 2019.
CIRIZA, Alejandra (marzo 2017) Militancia y academia : una genealogía fronteriza. Estudios feministas, de género y mujeres en Mendoza. Descentrada. Revista interdisciplinaria de feminismos y género, 1 (1) : e004.
Marília Moschkovich
Sociologist with a PhD (2018) and Master’s (2013) in Education from Unicamp.
Marília Moschkovich is a sociologist with a PhD (2018) and Master’s (2013) in Education from Unicamp. Her two main dissertation research areas were gender inequality in academic careers and the reception and circulation of the concept of gender in the context of global knowledge production. She was also a fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, where she focused on family and gender traditions as a means of analyzing gender-based violence and domestic violence.
She works in collaboration with the Anthropology department at São Paulo State University and the Gender and Feminism department at the Instituto Gerar de Psicanálise.
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS
MOSCHKOVICH, MARÍLIA. Sobre laranjas mecânicas, feminismo e psicanálise: natureza e cultura na dialética da alienação voluntária. In: Iaconelli, Vera; Garrafa,Thais; Teperman, Daniela. (Org.). Psicanálise e Parentalidade - Volume I. 1ed.Belo Horizonte: Autêntica, 2020
Feminist Gender Wars. La réception du concept de genre au Brésil dans les années 1980-1990 et la production et circulation de savoirs dans un système global. In: Genre et Émancipation - 2e congrès de l'Institut du Genre, 2019, Angers, França. Genre et Emancipation, 2019.
Osvaldo Gallardo
Historian with a PhD in Latinamerican Social Studies. Assistant professor and researcher at the Center for Research on Knowledge Circulation-CECIC (National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina)
Osvaldo Gallardo is an historian with a PhD in Latinamerican Social Studies. He is a postdoc, assistant professor and researcher at the Research Center on the Circulation of Knowledge (CECIC) (National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina). His areas of expertise include the internationalization science, knowledge circulation in Latin America, qualitative and quantitative analysis of academic careers, and factor analysis. He has been working on projects led by Pr. Fernanda Beigel since 2011. He has conducted research and field work at universities in Argentina, Chile, and Brazil.
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Beigel, Fernanda, Osvaldo Gallardo, and Fabiana Bekerman (2018), “Institutional expansion and scientific development in the periphery. The structural heterogeneity of Argentina's academic field”. Minerva. A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, Springer. doi.org/10.1007/s11024-017-9340-2. ISSN 1573-1871.
Gallardo, Osvaldo (2019), “El espacio de las disciplinas en el PROINCE. La tensión entre los criterios generales y las especificidades disciplinares”. En Beigel, Fernanda y Fabiana Bekerman (coord.), Culturas evaluativas. Impactos y dilemas del Programa de Incentivos a Docentes-Investigadores en Argentina (1993-2018). Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires: CLACSO, IEC-CONADU, CECIC. Pp. 185-208. ISBN 978-987-722-478-8.
Marcia Rangel
PhD candidate in Political Science at the Institute of Social and Political Studies (IESP) at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
Marcia Rangel is PhD candidate in Political Science at the Institute of Social and Political Studies at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. She has been a visiting scholar in the Sociology department at the University of Cambridge (CAPES fellowship, 2018-2019), the University of Coimbra (2017), the National University of Cuyo (2018), and the National University of General San Martín (2018) in the UK, Portugal, and Argentina respectively. She is an associate researcher at the Group for Multidisciplinary Affirmative Action Studies (GEMAA), and the Laboratory of Media Studies and Public Sphere (LEMEP); she has also been coordinator of research at the Observatory of Social Sciences (OCS) since 2018. In the domain of publishing, she is an editorial assistant at DADOS - Journal of Social Sciences. She has taught courses on feminism and inequality at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro at and SESC in São Paulo.
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS
CANDIDO, Marcia; CAMPOS, Luiz Augusto; FERES JUNIOR, João. (Accepted for publication, 2021), “Gender Division of Labor in Brazilian Political Science Publications”. Brazilian Political Science Review.
CANDIDO, Marcia. (2020), “Cartografia das Pioneiras da Ciência Política no Brasil”. BIROLI, F. et al. (org). In: Mulheres, Poder e Ciência Política: debates e trajetórias, p.325-368.
María Pía ROSSOMANDO
Historian at the National University of San Juan, Argentina
María Pía Rossomando is a historian at the National University of San Juan, Argentina, writing her dissertation on Gender Asymmetries and Social Capital in the Career Trajectories of Female Researchers in Argentina’s public universities. She is a research and teaching assistant at the National University of San Juan and a member of the Research Center on the Circulation of Knowledge (CECIC) at Cuyo National University in Mendoza, Argentina.
María Soledad Gomez
Doctoral candidate in gender asymmetry in career building
María Soledad Gomez is a doctoral candidate in gender asymmetry in career building. Evaluative culture and promotion at CONICET. She is a member of the Research Center on the Circulation of Knowledge (CECIC) at Cuyo National University in Mendoza, Argentina. She has degrees in political science and public administration.