Parenting versus academic productivity: a study on university teaching mothers

• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Kássia Mota de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Silva, Larissa Lira da, Rolim, Kethley Horranna Bezerra
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Práticas Educativas, Memórias e Oralidades
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/revpemo/article/view/9127
• topic: Universidade; Mulheres; Parentalidade; Produtividade Acadêmica; University; Women; Parenting; Academic Productivity; University; Women; Parenting; Academic Productivity

This article proposes a reflection on the apparent opposition between parenting and the productivity of women in the academy, considering that mothers have their academic production crossed by this reality of parental care that affects a relative decrease in academic productivity. By looking specifically at the academic production of female teachers at Federal Institutions of Higher Education in the Northeast region, during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have verified a relevant decrease in their production, and we infer that this decrease is directly related to the context of parental care and the overload of domestic work that characterizes this group. This is research anchored in the perspective of intersectionality that seeks to question the misogynist model of the Brazilian University that naturalizes the adverse working conditions of women, disregarding the machismo that crosses social practices in different instances of our society, defining different social places at different times women.