As women’s job responsibilities become more complex, their working hours intensify because they have a double day, one at her trade, and one strenuous at home.
According to INEGI, Mexican women spend an average of 7 hours a day on housework and without pay, compared to three men. If he paid the female work in the home would represent 17 percent of the national GDP. https://bit.ly/3UAxtBO
Overload is prevalent in all occupations, from the modest to the sophisticated. Of course, the suffering is greater for humble women, but those who climb to become scientists or businesswomen.
In 2022 of more than 14 thousand teachers, the Autonomous University of Sinaloa It has 402 members in the National System of Researchers who are a small elite. We are below Unison (500) and UABC (715).
The SNIs have better working conditions and perceptions than the others, with certain exceptions, however, the responsibility and pressure to remain in the System with summary evaluations cause physical and emotional wear and tear that few can bear, which is why many give up continuing when receive a negative opinion. This pressure is increased for women.
In the UAS there is gender disparity in this community that fortunately tends to shorten, because in 2007 women were just 19 percent and in 2022 we rose to 39 percent. This is more visible in the candidate category where there is half and half, but it decreases more than proportionally in levels I, II and III.
In an investigation that we carried out with Dr. Erika Montoya Zavala, at the Faculty of International Studies and Public Policies, we characterized the situation of Uaseña scientists and one from the Pedagogical University of the State of Sinaloa in their training, trajectory, empowerment, discrimination, obstacles and challenges they face. Her conception of success is inextricably linked to her condition as a mother on her second day, who has no non-working days or schedules.
In general, they feel empowered by having a higher social status and income. However, they are not sufficiently recognized in schools and by the authorities. There is a lot of disdain. In the UAS, for example, a good habit of annually congratulating the new members of the System has been lost.
A policy that addresses the condition of fragility of women is required in the UAS and other institutions to sustain themselves as researchers. We are not facing a group cause, but a matter of state priority.
Any Sinaloa development strategy will need large-scale projects with technological platforms and highly qualified human capital. The 636 national researchers of the entity are a base from which to start.
Now that the SNI has tightened the criteria for permanence, the pressure will increase in tone. It would be recommended that the resurrected General Coordination for the Promotion of Scientific Research and Innovation in the State of Sinaloa, headed by the experienced doctor Carlos Karam Quiñonez, add new support to the few that are offered, focusing on young people who aspire to enter the System, and follow them up the hierarchy. Likewise, a policy aimed at women and those who, due to different circumstances, obtain an adverse evaluation that does not have to mean the end of their scientific career, is necessary.
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They must allocate funds for publications, sponsorship of magazines, annual scholarships for those who leave the System with the commitment that they return. It is also very important to follow up on the dozens of nomadic doctors in science who lack institutional affiliation because the universities have politicized the recruitment of professors and the open calls for competitive examinations have disappeared.
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