Misogyny in Brazilian Federal Government Agencies for Science and High-Education.

Roberta Peixoto Arêas Da Silva,Marcia C Barbosa,Carolina Andréa Nodari,Manoel Cardoso,Ademir E Santana

doi:10.1590/0001-3765202120201389

Abstract

The transformation of women's role in society has been systematically studied. Numerous authors point out that among the factors of extreme relevance to this fact, the main is the increased presence of women in the formal job market. Researches also reveal that the increase in quantity is not reflected equally in all productive sectors nor the egalitarian occupation of high hierarchical positions. The present study aimed to analyze how the presence of women, especially in leadership positions, has evolved at the Brazilian Federal Agency for the Support and Evaluation of Postgraduate Education (CAPES) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) over the last 20 years. For these analyzes, surveys were conducted in the people management systems of the Brazilian Federal Public Administration. The initial hypothesis was that female attendance had increased in both the total number of female servants and in management and auxiliary positions, known as DAS in Brazil; however, evidence shows that women reduced overall agency presence, especially in the number of female Analysts occupying DAS positions. These results indicate that the misogyny observed in the academic sphere of the Brazilian National Postgraduate and Science, Technology, and Innovation systems are replicated in the politic-bureaucratic sphere that manages and sponsors these systems.

Highlights

Women have historically played a hidden role in the economy by contributing indirectly, by taking on most of the household responsibilities and by performing unpaid activities with a direct impact on the family earnings in the land or family busines (Vadnjal & Zupan 2009)
CAPES is an organization inside the ministry of education, and upon its foundation until 1996, the workforce used to come from this ministry
The majority of women in the staff at the beginning of the time series can be explained because usually, the Education field is dominated by professionals with a background in educational studies, which in turn consists of the majority of women

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Women have historically played a hidden role in the economy by contributing indirectly, by taking on most of the household responsibilities and by performing unpaid activities with a direct impact on the family earnings in the land or family busines (Vadnjal & Zupan 2009). At the end of the Middle Age, the growth of the cities provided ample possibilities for women to work on their own accounts. They could perform wage labor in households as servants, laundry women, nurses, and sewers. It was the variety of this labor demand, which induced a significant female migration into the towns (Butschek 2006). The Second World War because of its dimension impacted on many

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