Conciliación trabajo-familia: las académicas y la construcción social del género

Abstract

e objective of this article is to analyze the subjectivities and experiencesregarding the work-family reconciliation of university teachers, based on a criticalreading regarding the structural and symbolic scaffolding that requires women tocoordinate between professional tasks and domestic work and of care. is workincludes the results of the research "Higher Education and Gender at the University ofCuenca - Ecuador: current situation and perspectives 2019 - 2020", developed by theInterdisciplinary Gender Studies Research Group.e methodology integrates the mixed quantitative and qualitative approach withthe purpose of accessing the experiences of the academics from characterizing theirparticipation in the university structure and identifying gender gaps; as well asunderstanding social discourses in relation to gender roles. e results confirm theexistence of patriarchal conceptions about the ability of women to combine several tasks,concealing an unequal distribution of work and a double exploitation of academics.Likewise, it is concluded that work-family reconciliation constitutes an obstacle in theacademic trajectories of university teachers.