“I NEVER THOUGHT YOU WERE A WOMAN”: the conquest of scientific capital by the UFBA research productivity fellows
Scientific field. Intersectionality. Research productivity grant. Gender and science.
In this work we analyse how the socio-historical possibility conditions, positionalities and dispositions of productivity in research (PR) grant recipients constituted different trajectories and strategies to acquire scientific capital and, as such, recognition in the academic career. Therefore, from the intersectional articulation of gender, race/ethnicity, social class and generation, this study evaluates data from UFBa regarding PR grant recipients, comparing them with national data, generated from the database of the funding agency. We also analyse the life trajectories of PR grant recipients, obtained from their memorials, questionnaires and in depth interviews. The data shows the flagrant inequality of gender that still keeps women, during the studied period, with just a third of the available grants, a scenario that is aggravated when we consider each grant category alone. Additionally, the data indicate that the crossover of the several oppression systems result in singular and distinct trajectories that favor the entrance and progression of a still diminutive set of women