De ceguesa, petjades i biaix de gènere a la biologia: dades i reflexions

• Carbó Carbó, Neus ^[1]
  1. [1] Departament de Bioquímica i Biomedicina Molecular. Facultat de Biologia. Universitat de Barcelona
• Localización: Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Biologia, ISSN 0212-3037, ISSN-e 2013-9802, Nº. 73, 2023, págs. 28-33
• Idioma: catalán
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  • español

    Although the figures both for teaching and research staff and for students in the biosciences tend to give the impression of relatively little inequality with respect to the female gender, hidden biases persist which are probably deep­ly rooted in our culture, revealing the existence of gender blindness in our field as well. Thus, even under a simple analysis, concepts such as the “glass ceiling” or the “leaky pipeline” can be quickly identified in academic bio­science careers. Even among female students, who form a young collective fully trained in gender concepts, a bias is detected when assigning the char­acteristics of a “good teacher” to male figures more often than to female ones. It is time to reconsider, at all levels (teaching and research staff, group and project leaders, students), the gender stereotypes that we are still dragging along and that need to be changed in order to put an end to this implicit gen­der blindness.

  • català

    Tot i que, a l’àmbit de les biociències, els números tant del personal docent i investigador com de l’alumnat tendeixen a donar una imatge aparentment de poca desigualtat vers el gènere femení, persisteixen, tanmateix, biaixos ocults, probablement molt arrelats a la nostra cultura, que fan que també al nostre entorn es pugui parlar de ceguesa de gènere. Així, fins i tot amb una anàlisi senzilla, es poden identificar ràpidament conceptes com ara el sostre de vidre o la fuga de talent femení (leaky pipeline, literalment, ‘canonada que goteja’) en les carreres acadèmiques de les biociències. Fins i tot entre les alumnes, un col·lectiu jove i plenament format en conceptes de gènere, es de­tecta un biaix a l’hora d’adjudicar característiques de «bon docent» a figures masculines més que no pas a les femenines. És el moment de replantejar a tots els nivells (personal docent investigador, caps de grup i projectes, alum­nat) quins són els estereotips de gènere que encara arrosseguem i que cal canviar per a combatre definitivament aquesta ceguesa implícita de gènere.

  • English

    Although the figures both for teaching and research staff and for students in the biosciences tend to give the impression of relatively little inequality with respect to the female gender, hidden biases persist which are probably deeply rooted in our culture, revealing the existence of gender blindness in our field as well. Thus, even under a simple analysis, concepts such as the “glass ceiling” or the “leaky pipeline” can be quickly identified in academic bioscience careers. Even among female students, who form a young collective fully trained in gender concepts, a bias is detected when assigning the characteristics of a “good teacher” to male figures more often than to female ones. It is time to reconsider, at all levels (teaching and research staff, group and project leaders, students), the gender stereotypes that we are still dragging along and that need to be changed in order to put an end to this implicit gender blindness.