Brazzil

Until the 50’s and 60’s for you to work in an University as Professor you should be from the dominant class and end an undergraduate program and have some good marks in your degree. It was enough to hold a position as an auxiliary professor.

Soon, they realized that was the needed to have Doctors teaching Brazilian Universities. Therefore, they created small graduate programs to teach themselves, each professor wrote a monograph about one issue and among them got the Title of Doctor. After that, many of them started to travel to the United States, England, Germany and France doing laboratory training. It was a good time those days, everything was so sweet. They were able to create true feuds in the Universities, some of them managed to get big salaries being chief here, dean there etc…

In general those entire pioneers were males. They chose by finger the gorgeous students in the 70’s to work in their labs. So, all those beautiful girls became their first students. Of course there were some males students. Not all Professors males like females. Since they did not have enough capability to be mentor, they created doctors without the ability to work in serious Research Program in general the students follow the same Research line from the mentor or try to make a similar Research from a good scientific paper that they found in a scientific magazine.

Any way, many of the ladies were abused by the mentors but in the end of many years, they were doctors. They got jobs as Professor, they did excellent marriages and they went to work from 9 to 5 and take care of the family. Not everybody knows what is going on inside the campus, so people were naïve and married those ladies. Today is hard for a woman with a PhD to get married. Once, Research with low knowledge and abilities you do not expect great results, therefore productivity and any Scientific Expression in the International Community were very low.

In the 80’s and the 90’s all those gorgeous girls, now fat and older became responsible for the new generation of the doctors. Sorry. I forget to comment again that there were guys also because many old professors did not like girls.

The doctors whose formation was done in the 80’s and 90’s have a big story of psychological and sexual abuse. Many graduate student waist more than 10 years to have a PhD dissertation approved. Let’s not talk that many female students left the program as single mother and many others have an affair with the mentor.

Students with serious psychological problems will not produce anything. See the files from many of them. With an undergraduate degree, two or more specialization, a master, a PhD, and some times even with a Pos Doctor in a foreign institution and where are they? Some are in private institutions teaching some subjects, some left the Country and went to work in very different profession. Many of those people were female.

Brazilian Universities have a big story of female abuse. Female are abuse even from Female Professors. I knew a male Professor, each of his female students had an affair with him and he was the Greek educator, since he had the right to sleep with the student like the Greeks. He used to give an elephant work to the student and then started to work day and night with the lady until the woman break down.

The problem is not lack of female opportunity. There are two big problems that must be work out.

First, to work in a system that the mentor will not interfere with the private life of the student female or male, such as having sex or interact so much with the student.

Second, reduce the years of graduate program. A serious master in a University with international standards should be done in no more than18 months and a doctor degree no more than 36 months.

Third and very important issue, the transcripts from graduate programs should be the responsibility of the University and not from the Departments that sometimes they think that they are bigger than the University.

Students can not be anymore lab technicians, secretaries and lovers of their mentors. Health minds make better professionals. Graduate programs must stop immediately to produce mental sick diseases such as depression and anxiety.

What a shame...

Glaci Zancan
Few countries have so high index of women in leadership position, in the cupola of Science.
Exactly without evaluating given statisticians, the president of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Ciência (SBPC) Glaci Zancan observes that, in Brazil, to each day she increases the number of women scientists. "In the universities he has more students women who men", comment, "this reflect in the work market". For it, it is also the market that determines the performance areas. "Women go for Science, men for the finances. Science is not attractive for who wants to gain money ".
Beyond this aspect, Glaci Zancan evaluates that this feminine participation is decurrent of the conquest of space for the women. "In Brazil, the women arrive the positions of the top of the academic career. In the American and européias universities, this is much more difficult ".
Glaci knocks down the myth of the equality of sorts in the first world. "Few countries have so high index of women in leadership position, in the cupola of Science". Also, in its personal experience, the main discrimination that suffered for being woman was exactly of an American institution: candidate to a stock market of after-doutorado in the National Institute of American Public Health, received letter from the person who orientates saying that its stock market was denied by the fact of being woman. "Nor therefore I left to follow the career", comments.
This position of equality conquered for the Brazilian women elapses, in its opinion, of an interesting fact: as the scientific research is a recent thing in Brazil, having appeared at a moment where the woman started to occupy space in the work market, it it was of certain involved form since the start of the university, of the research. As in the Europe and the United States the scientific tradition she is older, when it had the phenomenon of feminine ingression in the social life, the structures already were mounted.
Besides increasing the universe of researchers, the woman offers a new quality. One of the aspects most important of the feminine participation is the sprouting of a differentiated look. "It is clearly that the vision of the woman is distinct of the masculine", detaches "and is good for having researchers of the two sexos, therefore this allows to share a vision with more abrangência". Over all in sciences human beings, the optics of the researcher has marcante influence.
"To the 22 years I decided to follow scientific career and I understood that it would not give to conciliate this with marriage". Thus Glaci Zancan summarizes its option. "the scientific career demand very and the woman has feeling of that children come in first place". Throughout its career, it it has confirmed the rightness of its decision: "when the woman is mother, the rhythm of the work depends on the children. It is a verifiable feminine reality in any scientific activity ".

The first comment over there is totally rubish! To the author and readers I would like to say that there is much more man on higher position than women in Brazil, but you should see what it is like in Europe! I am doing my PhD in England after doing undergraduation and masters in Brazil. I can definitely say that things are much better for women in Brazil. In the institute inwhich I work, The marine Biological Association of The UK, There is only one women fellow. At the Biological Department at Plymouth University I can't recall any, can't remember of any woman in senior posts at Southampton Oceanographic Centre. Apart from the numbers, peoples attitudes towards women are even worse. The environment is just no wellcoming for women here. The status of the universities depend directly on the male image that appear in the media as experts, or on the male pictures on photoboards. I never felt any hostility toward women in Brazil. In the UK this is not the case, women are just not expected to go too far.

Have a look at the internet and check the situation in other countries. Womem are much better off in Brazil.
From a woman.

More: I was pregnant in Brazil during my masters and never felt that expectation from the school body and supervisor was lowered in relation to my achievements because of that. On the other hand, here in England I felt since the very beginning that I was different. "Oh My god" said my supervisor "I didn.t know you had a child!". "don't worry": "you won't have to do this or that". "Let's eritte a more pragmatic project for your thesis, this one is too complex!". On the other hand, my husband can't spend one day at home with our child in case she falls ill and I need to carry an urgent experiment. "Is he babysitting today", they say, with a suspicious smile. There is no understanding towards his fatherhood at the same time that there is too much towards my motherhood. No wonder the few women who made it to the top are childless. I Know this is very hard to believe. I think I would never believe this if I had not come to England. We think everything is more civilised and modern in Europe. While this is true in most aspect. When it comes to male/female euqlity in science, they are far far faaaaarrr behind us!!!!

In Rich Countries, they want to see the numbers $$$$$$$$$$. Poor Countries, they are poor. The Research does not focus in make $$$$$$$$.
Who cares in Brazil if the woman is going to make something good or not. Anyway, the salary from a Professor in Brazil is garbage salary. So, let the women play around with the science. She will soon or later to make a choice her career or her family.

In one way woman are at an advantage -- in earning tuition funds. How many cases have you heard of a student working her way through school -- at a termas?