Social practices, discourses and gender relations in the university and work environment of women scientists in Bolivia

Abstract

Through the application of questionnaires, this research has verified that Bolivian scientific women must overcome six categories of gender discourses (mother and wife woman, weak woman, instinctive and irrational woman, woman not suitable for science, invisible woman and woman submissive), as well as asymmetrical gender relations, both in universities and in their work spaces. They also have a common history of social practices in their first two socialization processes: home and school.