University multiwomen: career, personal life and teaching competences of postgraduate programs' teachers

Abstract

In recent years, women have been gaining more space in the labor market due to their higher level of education, especially university teachers. For them, balancing work and personal life becomes a recurring challenge because of the work overload that these women face. Hence, there is a need to develop specific competences for college teaching, which reflects the particularities and the various demands of this profession. Thus, the objective of this research is to analyze how married and divorced teachers seek to reconcile the relationship between work and family, and the teaching competences that they have been acquired over their career. For this, a research was conducted with nine teachers who make up the framework of the Postgraduate Programs in Administration and Accounting of the Federal University of Uberlandia, applying the Narratives of Life method. It found that, although in the education sector there is greater participation and acceptance of the female figure, many changes are still necessary for society to achieve a gender equity situation. About family life, it was observed that they experienced charging for care, rooted in the sexual division of labor. Regarding the development of teaching competences, master and doctorate were identified as responsible for the development of competences related to research. Courses focusing on educational aspects and experience in teaching were also identified as prevalent for the internalization of teaching competences.