The Situation of Young Women Proffessor in the Faculty of Comunication Sciences of the Autonomous University

FLORENCIA ROVETTO GONEM ; NÚRIA SIMELIO SOLÀ; BIRGIT WOLF

Porto

Workshop; ECREA Women's Network Gender in Academia: Difference and Discrimination in Communication Research; 2009

European Comunication Research and Education Association

This article analyses the present situation of female academics and researchers, who were working at the Communication Sciences Faculty of the Autonomous University of Barcelona during 2007-2008. Our principal aim is to determine if the evaluation of academic quality in communication produces inequality of gender and age. We present the outcomes of a qualitative research carried out by in depth interviews with a sample of 5 professors. Our results show that the young women collective faces several difficulties in the access to academia, which deeply affect them and may generate a double discrimination.