Norna oficial mexicana 19

Para la prevención y control de enfermedades bucales.

Las normas oficiales mexicanas, conocidas NOM´s

Cuadernos de Marte, 2020

Gender is a constitutive element of social relationships which involve different cultural evocative symbols of diverse representations regarding the meaning of being men and women. Identity is inextricably linked to culture, it is constructed as a process of appropriation, which its primary function is to set boundaries between “us” and “others”. Being women and men involves building a self-conception and self-assessment that establishes a stance and defines different roles between both genders, according to attitudes and behaviors socially accepted.This paper presents a qualitative research which incorporates elements of interpretive phenomenology and the biographical method of “life story”. It included a homogeneous group of nine full-time academic- female-researchers with desirable profile; that is to say, academic-researchers who fulfill, teaching, researching and academic productivity, tutoring, theses and dissertations supervision and management duties and roles. The examples of their narratives show some of their perceptions regarding: the initial and postgraduate academic training for labor, family - husband, children- and traditional roles or tending to change, articulated to the public and private environments in which they perform. The stories reveal behavioral patterns and mechanisms from which has been fostered and maintained a more traditional differentiation than tending to change between female and male performances, while social mandate, has forced participants to be mothers and / or wives before-academic female researchers.