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The Institutional Context

The Institutional Context. FLACSO Latin American Postgraduate Institute in Social Sciences Created in 1953, under the auspices of UNESCO Headquarters in Costa Rica and 12 LA countries CENTER OF GENDER SOCIETY AND POLICIES. The Institutional Context. CENTER OF GENDER SOCIETY AND POLICIES.

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The Institutional Context

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  1. The Institutional Context • FLACSO • Latin American Postgraduate Institute in Social Sciences • Created in 1953, under the auspices of UNESCO • Headquarters in Costa Rica and 12 LA countries • CENTER OF GENDER SOCIETY AND POLICIES

  2. The Institutional Context CENTER OF GENDER SOCIETY AND POLICIES UNESCO REGIONAL CHAIR ON WOMEN, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN LAC MASTER VIRTUAL PROGRAM ON GENDER AND PUBLIC POLICIES PARTNERSHIP WITH:PAHO CIHR ECLAC UNICEF FOGARTY-NIH INSTRAW UNDP OSM-SPAIN UNIFEM UNIVERSITIES, OAS Women GO and NGO’s in LAC

  3. Milestones 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 NIH Colloquium Gender Globalization and Health Implementation and Evaluation Unesco Regional Chair Evaluation and Planning NIH Colloquium Women in Science Creation and Program Development

  4. “Resources and innovative strategies for career development of women researchers in health sciences: A training, mentoring and networking experience with Latin-American scientist” • UNESCO Regional Chair Women, Science & Technology in Latin America • in partnership with FIC/ NIH - www.catunescomujer.org Coordination: Gloria Bonder catunesco@flacso.org.ar Lidia Heller, Raúl Mercer, Carolina Carrillo

  5. BRIDGING RESEARCH, POLICIES, INNOVATION AND NETWORKING GENDER EQUITY IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY WOMEN/GENDER & SCIENCE YOUTH/ GENDER/ICT www.catunescomujer.org

  6. WHICH ARE THE PROBLEMS?

  7. “The Scissor Pattern” MEXICO Fuente: María Elina Estebanez, Foro Iberoamericano de Ciencia, Tecnología, FIBECYT - Diciembre 2006, Argentina www.catunescomujer.org

  8. Women & Science Which are causes? • Leaky pipes • Glass ceilings and walls • Slippery slopes • “Velvet ghetto” • Chilly cultures • Conflicting  work-life balance • Lack of flexible, care-supportive policies • Stereotyped notions of  professional development • Lack of role models and opportunities for networking • Discrimination • Social representation of science and scientists www.catunescomujer.org

  9. Gender Blindness in Health Research: How to address it

  10. Advances in Knowledge from Sex/Gender Research in Women’s Health • A better understanding of how sex/gender factors matter in health and disease • Knowledge about genetic, environmental, hormonal, and other causative pathways of diseases in males and females • Clinical Implications: Scientific information for gender-specific (sex-appropriate) medical care • Vivian Pinn (2006)

  11. Women’s Health and Sex & Gender Issues in Research and Health Care Expanding the Concepts of Women’s Health Research & Health Care Expanding Knowledge Through InterdisciplinaryResearch of Sex/Gender Factors Clinical Implications for Integrated, Comprehensive, Sex/Gender InformedMedical Care for Women & Men Vivian Pinn (2006)

  12. Listening, communication, & negotiation skills Women Leading the Creation of Equality & Cooperative Scientific Cultures: New venues for improving the quality of scientific research Empowerment with responsibility and solidarity Valuing exchange Creating new knowledge Recognizing gender inequality mechanisms in the field of science Development of propositional strategies www.catunescomujer.org

  13. OUR VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT • Capacity-building for: • Career development and transformational leadership • Mainstreaming gender analysis in health research • Multimedia hypertexts • Case analysis • Forums • Web conferences • Virtual Library Latin American Women Researchers: Leaders in scientific innovation and gender equity Virtual workshops, seminars, tutorships, & mentorships Creation of networks and collaborative projects to optimize the quality of professional practices in non-discriminatory environments www.catunescomujer.org

  14. VIRTUAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING PROGRAM FOR LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN RESEARCHERS IN BIOMEDICAL/HEALTH SCIENCES TRAINING AND MENTORING NETWORKING RESEARCH Componente de formación y mentoría virtual Professional trajectories, choices and capacity- building needs of Latin American Women Researchers in Health Sciences Career Development and Transformational Leadership Workshop Seminar on Gender Analysis in Health Research Creation of Latin American Network of Women Researchers in Health Sciences With the support of the Observatorio de Salud de la Mujer, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, Spain In partnership with Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S.A www.catunescomujer.org

  15. RESEARCH “Assessment of professional trajectories, choices and capacity-building needs of Latin American women researchers in Biomedical/Health Sciences” • Analyze career choices, obstacles, coping strategies, and perceptions and attitudes towards gender inequalities in the work place • Strengthen women's career development and enable women's leadership in scientific institutions OBJECTIVES • Distribution of an electronic questionnaire • Quantitative and qualitative analysis METHODOLOGY www.catunescomujer.org

  16. TRAINING VIRTUAL SEMINAR: “Gender analysis in biomedical/health research” October 16 – December, 9 2006 September 24 – November 19 2007 • OBJECTIVES • Provide overview of current theoretical and methodological developments of gender analysis in health research • Reflect on the impact of globalization in women's health • Analyze differential impacts of sex and gender in the study and treatment of selected health problems • Provide tools to incorporate gender analysis in professional practices and research www.catunescomujer.org

  17. Pedagogical strategy HYPERTEXT DISCUSSION FORUMS WEB CONFERENCES www.catunescomujer.org

  18. VIRTUAL MENTORING May – September, 2006 • Encourage: • - women's career development in health sciences • leadership and networking OBJECTIVES • E-mail, phone and face-to-face meetings • Web conferences • Mentors trained through virtual workshops and web conferences METHODOLOGY - Senior researchers committed to gender equality - Mid career women researchers PARTICIPANTS www.catunescomujer.org

  19. TRAINING MENTORING VIRTUAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING PROGRAM FOR LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN RESEARCHERS IN BIOMEDICAL/HEALTH SCIENCES PARTICIPANTS VOICES NETWORKING www.catunescomujer.org

  20. VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: Career Development and Transformational Leadership workshop convergent strategies Transformational leadership Career under “scrutiny” www.catunescomujer.org

  21. Career Under “Scrutiny” • From careers in stages to planning in “turbulence”. The specificity of scientific careers. • Gender models, stereotypes and relations in scientific environments. Internal and external barriers: glass ceilings and walls, sticky floors. www.catunescomujer.org

  22. Transformational Leadership • Empowerment, self-leadership, and focus on cooperation and leading process of change. • Social, institutional and personal determinants for leadership. • Visibility vis-à-vis vulnerability. www.catunescomujer.org

  23. Main Conflicts • Balance between work, family and personal life (“wonder woman”) • Loneliness and isolation at work. • Competition among female peers and with female in upper decision levels. • Open or subtle discrimination by peers or bosses (even sexual harassment) • Persistence of gender imbalance to access to top positions and opportunities • Less recognition than expected of professional trajectory. • Not being quoted in research projects. www.catunescomujer.org

  24. TRAINING MENTORING VIRTUAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING PROGRAM FOR LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN RESEARCHERS IN BIOMEDICAL/HEALTH SCIENCES PARTICIPANTS VOICES NETWORKING www.catunescomujer.org

  25. One Path: Several Challenges 1. Defining the role and its implications • What does it mean to be a mentor with a gender perspective? • What are the specific characteristics of virtual mentoring? • What is the added value of mentoring to the whole program? …and more... www.catunescomujer.org

  26. 2. Reframing conceptual views • Acknowledging gender determinants in professional careers. • Exploring the possibilities of communicating and building knowledge in virtual environments. • Discovering dimensions that have been little recognized or ignored in the capacity building of research careers. www.catunescomujer.org

  27. Dimensions • Temporal • Opportunities structure • Spatial • Geographical and institutional moves, shifts, settlings, and relocations. • Emotional • Fears, anxieties, expectations, uncertainties, satisfactions, fantasies, disappointments, surprises. • Relational • Referents, (positive and negative) models, guides, networks, relevant contacts. www.catunescomujer.org

  28. 3. The Experience from a Male Perspective • Development of “listening” skills • Addressing “the challenge”: gender relations based on the recognition of differences within equality • Reaffirming the need to transform institutional cultures • Enhance men’s involvement to overcome gender discrimination in professional lives www.catunescomujer.org

  29. 4: Towards New Models for Regional and International Networking and Cooperation • Democratic • Equity based • Empowerment • Multicultural www.catunescomujer.org

  30. PARTICIPANTS VOICES TRAINING MENTORING VIRTUAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING PROGRAM FOR LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN RESEARCHERS IN BIOMEDICAL/HEALTH SCIENCES NETWORKING www.catunescomujer.org

  31. IDEALIZED ROLE MODELS FOUNDATIONS (”CIMIENTOS”) J Sulston B.A. Houssay L.F. Leloir AZ Fire & CC Mello RT Hunt y PM Nurse C. Milstein Andrew Schally Paul Crutzen Harold Kroto Donall E. Thomas, Marie has daugthers!! Marie has daugthers!! M & P Curie M & P Curie B Mc Cllintock B Mc Cllintock S Ramón y Cajal A Kornberg y R Kornberg

  32. Surprise! Women In Sciences Gender, as a lived experience was a matter research Universal feeling of a unique unreachable model of scientist Are there different ways to be a good scientist? Could the program provide me the tools to do it in my own way? Would it not be a risky exposure of my weaknesses? Reactions to the invitation: Suspicious

  33. Convincing matters: • They were experts • It would not take much time (I could quit at any time) • I had unsolved contradictions and needs that they knew about • Virtual Classroom • (amusing - precise - well documented) • Web - conferences • (full of people and exciting) • Forums • (more time for personal interchange) • Mentoring • (intensive sessions) Let’s try!

  34. INTERNAL EXTERNAL SELF-CONFIDENCEI could identify: my abilities my weaknesses And…enjoy my style RECOGNITION Outcomes • Knowing how to NEGOTIATE efficiently • PLANNING next steps of my career • LEADING projects in my own style

  35. RECOGNITIONRECONOCIMIENTOS KNOWLEDGE CONOCIMIENTOS FOUNDATIONS CIMIENTOS

  36. OUTCOMES • A NETWORK has been created and several collaborative projects are in progress • Participants: Women researchers from 9 LA countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela • 5 mentors: 4 women and one man • Evaluation: high level of satisfaction with the contents, methodology and impacts in the participant’s lives • Improvement of professional positions, promotion of gender-fair procedures and norms in their institutions, and sharing resources. • Gender lenses applied to their professional and personal lives • Growing interest in this program by different stakeholders www.catunescomujer.org

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