Expresiones patriarcales y techo de cristal: decisiones y autonomías de mujeres en instituciones públicas de Cuenca 2014-2017

Abstract

This research proposes the study of new forms of machisms and their patriarchal expression in the exercise of powers in Public Institutions of Cuenca, in the years 2014-2017; to make visible the existence of more subtle and naturalized gender discrimination, which puts a “glass ceiling” on the leaders, decision makers and autonomies of women in work spaces. With this thesis work I intend to make visible that sexism and discrimination against women persist, especially in public institutions, where they can appear in an open or veiled manner. With an analysis based on a personal experience about how women are still excluded from senior management positions where decision-making occurs, meeting what is known as a glass ceiling. Women in public office are questioned and evaluated almost daily, almost without the right to be mistaken, they are subject to misogynistic behaviors, showing that what women do or say is not relevant. This problem is especially linked to public management spaces, where women are living in situations of subtle discrimination that prevent them from advancing in their leadership and decision making. Therefore, by means of the present investigation it will be possible to show how common this practice is that puts a glass ceiling and a sticky floor to the aspirations of women; since care issues are still mostly in charge of them.