Science and gender: researchers in training at the end of Francoism

Abstract

During the twentieth century, in parallel with the increase in the access to higher education, women began to break barriers in the field of research. The main aim of this study is to check the way in which women’s access to science was affected by the first call of the Plan for the Training of Research Personnel (1968), registered under the 2nd Economic and Social Development Plan (1968/71), and successive calls for pre and postdoctoral scholarships to do research in Spain or abroad, which were granted up to 1975. Through a quantitative analysis of the data, from a gender perspective, we will try to determine the different ways in which the presence of women in the Spanish scientific world began to become manifest and visible as well as to check the specialties or areas which were mostly masculinized, feminized or those that showed a clear trend towards equality.

Keywords

• becas de formación
• ciencia
• franquismo
• mujer
• personal investigador