Artículo
Gender Heterophilia and Homophilia in Science Chilean Production
Fecha
2022-12-19Registro en:
Revista Austral de Ciencias Sociales. Volume 2022, Issue 43, Pages 7 - 2319 December 2022
0717-3202
10.4206/rev.austral.cienc.soc.2022.n43-01
Autor
Espinosa C., Juan Felipe
Hernandez A., Javier
Fardella, Carla
Muñoz, Esteban
Berguer, Juan José
Institución
Resumen
The problem of insertion and/or consolidation of women in science has been much studied, with a focus on the percentage of women’s insertion in scientific work. However, the problem of women’s symbolic experience in science has received less empirical treatment. Using an instrument that seeks to understand whether there are patterns of homophilia, that is, to reveal whether people working in science have a tendency to mention others as their referents only if they meet some similar condition to theirs, our results show a clear tendency in scientists to evaluate the influence of others in homophilic fashion. We argue that this intervening factor may be playing a key role in the reproduction of the inequalities and asymmetries constitutive of the Chilean scientific field. © 2022, Universidad Austral de Chile. All rights reserved.