Vivencias de las mujeres egresadas del Programa de Posgrado en Tecnología y Sociedad (PPGTE) de la Universidad Tecnológica Federal del Paraná (UTFPR)

TLDR: In this article, the authors used open interviews carried out with five women graduates of the program, three of the master's and two of the docto-rate, to evaluate if aspects of the gender interfere in the academic trajectories.

Abstract: The research  was  oriented  to  evaluate  if  aspects  of  the  gender interfere in the academic trajectories. The theore-tical-epistemological  referential  of  the  historical-cultural  perspective guides this study to make it possible to analyze the existing distinctions for women in the exercise of inves-tigative activities. The method of qualitative research is of particular relevance in analyzing whether there is the dissolution of old social inequalities within the diversity of the academic environment. As a research instrument, we used open interviews carried out with five women graduates of the program, three of the master’s and two of the docto-rate. The analysis of the narratives allowed us to state that the academic career is one of the few alternatives in which women can work and study at the same time. In contrast, the  assumption  of  multiple  social  roles  and  the  effort  undertaken to reconcile double working hours and the lack of family and financial support for studies they were seen as obstacles to training. Likewise, the narratives made it possible to make visible a set of “barriers” to follow the scientific career, which refer in the: double working hours, maternity, productivity in research, competence, preju-dice and gender discrimination; thus reaffirming the need to develop public policies to expand not only access, but also the permanence of women in the university.