Abstract
This study has aimed to analyze gender inequality among professors of Centro de Ciências Agrárias (CCA – Agricultural Science Center), Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV), to identify the factors that could influence this gender bias. We sought not only to describe gender inequalities in the spaces occupied by men and women in undergraduate and graduate programs of CCA/UFV, but also to understand the mechanisms through which gender differences were perpetuated. To this end, we used the Lattes Curriculum of professors as a source of information for the analysis of the variables that showed different patterns between professors of both sexes who worked in the graduate programs in the field of agricultural science at UFV. The analysis of data on the distribution by sex also in undergraduate courses of CCA aimed to present a comprehensive overview of gender configurations at all academic levels: undergraduate and graduate education, as well as faculty. The big clue that guided the final conclusions of this research was the perception that professors’ original link was related to the guidance standards set by professors in the graduate program.
Gender; Agricultural science; Anticipatory socialization