Abstract
This study aims to describe experiences of gender essentialist attitudes in engineering faculties in Turkey. It is a phenomenological research based on semi-structured interviews made with 9 women and 6 male academics in 2017. A mix of a snowballing sampling and convenience sampling were used to reach the research subjects. Descriptive analysis was made to interpret the data. The results indicate that women academics suffer from essentialist views in relation to general aspects of womanhood as well as in relation to specific aspects such as motherhood, bodily strength, authority, sociality and emotionality. The results suggest that male dominated universities would be well advised to begin by looking for essentialist presuppositions about gender among the members of their staff.
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