Mulheres e docentes : a desigualdade de gênero da área acadêmica de relações internacionais no Brasil

Abstract

The gender issue is a secular problem within societies. Inequality imposes certain behaviors for each gender that dictate their social roles and form the understanding of men and women before society, this notion is also reflected inside of the work sector. Considered a notorious profession, the teaching career in higher education has an unequal presence between men and women working in the area of International Relations (IR) in Brazilian public universities. In this context, the research seeks to understand the issue of gender inequality and its impacts within the IR Academy in Brazil, exposing possible factors that guide the low female representation in the sector and verifying how this was influenced by multiple aspects, among them the structural inequality of gender issue in the labor sector and also the marginalization of the figure of women in the IR area. For this purpose and as a theoretical-conceptual contribution, the investigation is based on an intersectional feminist perspective of International Relations.