Women and participation in university management positions
Female representation at the University decreases as one ascends in the hierarchy of the academic category as well as in the occupation of academic positions.
Marina Tomás, member of the EDO group and coordinator of the CCUC, has published an interesting article in the “Interdisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies” in which she analyzes the participation of women in the University. In her writing, the situation of women's participation in university management positions is raised, considering the structural and cultural elements that determine both opportunities and access to and exercise of positions by women. Among these elements, special emphasis is placed on the institutional culture of the university, the internal and external socio-psychological barriers.
In the university institutional culture, although important advances have been made, a vision of that power structures are neutral processes and, therefore, men and women have the same opportunities. The gender equality strategies promoted fundamentally focus on changing individual women, not the cultures in which they work. Dr. Tomás' team maintains that it is also necessary to change the university culture, since the current structures and procedures do not facilitate their access and permanence in the power and decision-making bodies.
The article describes part of the results of a research in which they analyzed the types of leadership exercised by women department directors in four Catalan universities, experienced from the perspective of the teaching staff they direct.
< br> Access to the full article: http://observatori-diagnostics.uab.es/RevistaElectronica/PDF/MarinaTomas02 .pdf
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