Gender and secondary education: Teacher experiences and strategies

Authors

  • Maria Helena Santos Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, CIS-Iscte, Lisboa, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7708-4634
  • António Manuel Marques Escola Superior de Saúde do Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal (ESS/IPS) e Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar Aplicada em Saúde (CIIAS), Setúbal, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0200-8976
  • Catarina Delgado Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2280-0207

Keywords:

Secondary Education, Tokenism, Gender Relations, Masculinity

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to analyse the eventual negative effects associated with male teachers in Portuguese secondary education as well as their strategies for integrating into a profession where women are in the majority. We carried out sixteen individual semi-structured interviews with eight male and eight female teachers and with the contents then submitted to thematic analysis. The analytical findings demonstrate how men, in this context, experience different consequences from those experienced by women facing similar situations while also identifying advantages accruing due to membership of the minority. The experiences of men and the perceptions of women suggest the existence of pressure for men to portray, as teachers, the traits of hegemonic masculinity.

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Author Biographies

Maria Helena Santos, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, CIS-Iscte, Lisboa, Portugal

É licenciada (2001), mestre (2004) e doutorada (2011) em Psicologia Social e das Organizações, pelo ISCTE-IUL. No primeiro triénio do seu projeto de pós-doutoramento, trabalhou no Centre en Études Genre LIEGE, Universidade de Lausanne, Suíça, e no CIS-IUL. Foi coordenadora da Linha Temática Género, Sexualidades e Interseccionalidade entre 2017 e 2019 e cocoordenadora do grupo de investigação Psychange entre 2018 e 2021.

António Manuel Marques, Escola Superior de Saúde do Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal (ESS/IPS) e Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar Aplicada em Saúde (CIIAS), Setúbal, Portugal

Doutorado em Psicologia Social e Organizacional no Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE). Docente do Ensino Superior Politécnico e investigador no Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Aplicada em Saúde (CIIAS), Setúbal, Portugal. Áreas de investigação: género, masculinidade, sexualidade, saúde e mudança comportamental em saúde.

Catarina Delgado , Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Catarina Delgado concluiu o seu Mestrado em Psicologia Social e das Organizações em 2021 no Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal. Os seus interesses de investigação estão centrados nos estudos de gênero, em particular nos contextos profissionais em que os homens estão em minoria.

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2023-09-06

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Santos, M. H., Marques, A. M. ., & Delgado , C. . (2023). Gender and secondary education: Teacher experiences and strategies. Cadernos De Pesquisa, 53, e10118. Retrieved from https://publicacoes.fcc.org.br/cp/article/view/10118

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Teacher Education and Teaching

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