Science and Gender: the daily life of women researchers in Psychology
Psychology; Scientific Excellence; Genre; Daily.
This research focuses on the relationship between science and gender, focusing on the impacts of scientific excellence requirements on the daily lives of PQ scholarship holders in Brazilian Psychology. A multi-method approach chosen in three stages was adopted: analysis of public domain data; Application of an electronic form and realization of semi-structured feature. These steps resulted in five studies, whose findings show that: a) in Psychology, women occupy proportionally fewer positions at the top of the career; b) the profile of the PQ scholarship holder in the area is white, cis, middle class, married, heterosexual and from the Southeast of the country and the main problems they face are related to the scenario of dispute and internal competition that has been intensifying in the context of S&T in the country and the current configuration of academic work marked by the overload of activities and functions, generating feelings of satisfaction and discouragement; c) these conditions determine impacts on the daily lives of the researchers, who, added to the domestic, family and conjugal demands, research the invention of multiples of conciliation; d) e, are associated with the expansion of vulnerability to psychological distress and other health problems; e) despite this, the adherence of PQ grantees from Psychology to the hegemonic individualizing rationality hinders the understanding that, in the current neoliberal and pandemic scenario, their social positions, once privileged by white privilege, have shifted towards the becoming black of the world, whose sharpness is observed in the marks of epistemicide, previously experienced only by black women. With this, it is concluded that as these professionals seek to meet the expectations of neoliberal rationalization, they fail to realize that nowadays, they can also be part of the set of (o) new (o) renegades (o).