Perspectives of gender in the higher education: politics and limits from an equitable academic

Abstract

One of the most important challenges that face the institutions of top education is of eradicating the anequality of kind that still it demonstrates and reproduces to his interior. From his origins, the univer sities and institutes have been historically unfavorable spaces for the women, who for centuries did not even have right to accede to this educational level. By means of requirements and constant fights, from the 19th century, the women managed to enter to the top education, increasing of progressive form his presence. Nevertheless, many desigualdades still persist; they are notable in the area of the academic profession (appointments and promotions), in the evaluations and in the grant of recognitions, in the access and the permanency for areas and disciplines, as well as in some Latin - American countries, included Ecuador. It is not also possible to forget that lamentably there exist situations of harassment, harassment and violence of kind in the institutions of top education. This work has as intention think brings over of the way in which the social dimension of the kind is woven, in the area of the top education, as element that takes part in a fundamental way in the relations of power.