Publication: Las Mujeres Científicas en la España Actual. Representaciones Sociales
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2014
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El estudio que presentamos forma parte del Proyecto de Investigación para el Fomento de la Igualdad de Género en la información Científica (IFIGIC), financiado por el Instituto de la Mujer, del Ministerio de Sanidad, Política Social e Igualdad. En él pretendemos poner en evidencia la falta de notoriedad de las mujeres científicas en la realidad social española actual, desvelando, además, las diferentes imágenes y representaciones sociales que las mujeres y los hombres tienen hacia este colectivo. Para ello, hemos realizado un estudio, cualitativo y exploratorio, desarrollando tres grupos de discusión; uno de ellos formado exclusivamente por mujeres, otro constituido por hombres y un tercero mixto, formado por mujeres y hombres. Los resultados no pueden ser más esclarecedores. El conocimiento social, acerca de las personas dedicadas a la investigación científica en nuestro país, es muy escaso y poco significativo. Las mujeres y los hombres no disciernen el carácter científico de las mujeres y las perciben, simplemente, como a otras mujeres profesionales. Asimismo, las mujeres y los hombres tienen imágenes diferentes de las mujeres profesionales y estas representaciones responden, de forma peculiar, a patrones estereotipados. Esta grave falta de notoriedad pública de las mujeres científicas españolas, además de la estereotipia de sus representaciones sociales, favorecen ciertos efectos perniciosos y no deseados: el inmovilismo social y la permanencia de una situación desequilibrada y desigual, manifiestamente propicia para los hombres. El proyecto IFIGIC tiene el propósito de cambiar esta no querida realidad, propiciando el fomento de la igualdad de género en la información científica, facilitando, de manera progresiva, el proceso de evolución hacia la igualdad de género en el escenario científico español.
This study is a part of the Project of Investigation for the Promotion of the Gender Equality in the Scientific information (IFIGIC), financed by the Institute of Women, of the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality. We here try to highlight the lack of recognition of the scientific women in the actual society in Spain, revealing, in addition, the different images and social representations that the women and the men have towards this group. With this aim in mind, we have performed a study, qualitatively and exploratory, developing three focus groups; one of them formed exclusively by women, other one being constituted by men only, and a mixed third group formed by women and men. The results of the study cannot be more enlightening. The social knowledge, about the persons working scientific investigation in Spain, is very scanty and slightly significant. Women and men do not discern the scientific character of the women and perceive them, simply, as other professional women. Furthermore, women and men have different images from the professional women and these representations correspond, in a peculiar form, to stereotyped schemes. This serious lack of public recognition of the Spanish scientific women and their stereotyped social representation are favoring certain pernicious and not wished effects: the social immobility and the permanency of an unbalanced and unequal situation, manifestly advantageous for men. The project IFIGIC has the intention of changing this unwanted reality, enhancing the promotion of the gender equality in the scientific information, and facilitating, in a progressive way, the process of evolution towards the gender equality in the scientific Spanish scene.
This study is a part of the Project of Investigation for the Promotion of the Gender Equality in the Scientific information (IFIGIC), financed by the Institute of Women, of the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality. We here try to highlight the lack of recognition of the scientific women in the actual society in Spain, revealing, in addition, the different images and social representations that the women and the men have towards this group. With this aim in mind, we have performed a study, qualitatively and exploratory, developing three focus groups; one of them formed exclusively by women, other one being constituted by men only, and a mixed third group formed by women and men. The results of the study cannot be more enlightening. The social knowledge, about the persons working scientific investigation in Spain, is very scanty and slightly significant. Women and men do not discern the scientific character of the women and perceive them, simply, as other professional women. Furthermore, women and men have different images from the professional women and these representations correspond, in a peculiar form, to stereotyped schemes. This serious lack of public recognition of the Spanish scientific women and their stereotyped social representation are favoring certain pernicious and not wished effects: the social immobility and the permanency of an unbalanced and unequal situation, manifestly advantageous for men. The project IFIGIC has the intention of changing this unwanted reality, enhancing the promotion of the gender equality in the scientific information, and facilitating, in a progressive way, the process of evolution towards the gender equality in the scientific Spanish scene.