Women, professorship and unequal opportunities

Abstract

This text deals with the problem of unequal opportunities for women who are employed at higher education institutions, which have affinities in the scientific and teaching careers in institutions where they work. The aim of this paper is to show that women are part of masculine culture, and as such, they are gender- determined and subordinated in the dominant male academic teaching profession. The problem of the slow progress of women in the academic profession is deeply social rooted and it is difficult to see clear mechanisms by which it is persistently maintained and operated. Certainly these mechanisms, which stop a woman on a particular step in the promotion of her career have a stronghold on many levels because they act with great power. In the sphere of education and science, women are still a minority. Women in teaching and scientific profession are further handicapped by an integrated structural and cultural barriers and also a system that clearly works against them.

Keywords

• women
• professorship
• masculinity
• higher education institutions