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  • Item type:Publication,
    Gender and academic roles in graduate programs: Analyses of Brazilian government data
    (2013)
    Leta, J.
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    Olinto, G.
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    Batista, P.D.
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    Borges, E.P.
    Brazilian researchers affiliated to graduate programs play a major role in scientific and technological development in the country. Hence, they have to cope with various academic roles, especially the core one: teaching. Considering Boudieu's concept of 'scientific capital', this study aims at investigating whether female and male teacher-researchers have an equal share of academic activities with low 'scientific capital' return, such as teaching undergraduate courses, and high 'scientific capital' return, such as publication of journal articles. Official data from Brazilian Ministry of Education with information about the population of more than 52 thousand teacher-researchers, and available in 6,741 pdf files, were gathered in a single data matrix. Indicators of academic tasks and productivity were generated. Data analyses for the whole population did not show differences between gender and tasks. Nevertheless, analyses focusing on specific scientific areas indicated that in some fields women are having a larger share of less valued tasks than men: a burden that might help to explain the difference in productivity favoring men in these fields. As gender in science and technology is still an issue of high interest, our study aims at contributing to a better understanding of gender boundaries in this field. © AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH Vienna 2013.
  • Item type:Publication,
    Brazilian authorś scientific performance: Does gender matter?
    (2009)
    Batista, P.D.
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    Leta, J.
    The number of women pursuing careers in science has recently increased remarkably. Nevertheless, they still have few chances to be successful in their careers. Low scientific performance is one of the most frequent reasons behind women's failure in science. The present study aims at presenting evidences upon men and womeńs scientific performances. Two different databases were cross-examined to provide trends on publication and visibility (estimated by h-index) of 18,993 Brazilian authors. The results showed that the chances to be within the select group of the most productive Brazilian authors is much higher for male authors. As for those authors with 50 or less publications (90% of the sample), differences in probabilistic were not observed. Similar results were found for the h-index analysis. Regarding the relation between research field and scientific performance, we have found that research field plays an important role for male authors in terms of number of publications and h-index. However, the research field seems to have no effect upon female scientific performance. We hope the empirical evidences presented in this paper may contribute to the debate on gender differences within other scientific communities.