Condiciones laborales de científicas en una institución de educación superior periférica mexicana

Recently, there has been a trend of feminization in the educational and professional fields. Such tendency has been considered a step towards gender equality. However, its significance in the overall quality of life for Mexican women has been narrowly evaluated. This article analyses diverse factors impacting the overall labor conditions of Mexican scientists (male and female) at a peripheral institution, as well as in their chances of being excluded from the Sistema Nacional de Investigadoras e Investigadores, as a mean to highlight the vulnerabilities of the female Mexican scientists geolocated outside the core of the educational system. For this, 140 surveys were applied: their results demonstrate the extent to which the distribution of academic work still responds to a traditional sexual division, negatively impacting the inclusion, in disadvantaged conditions with high social costs, of women in the scientific field.