Ana M. González RamosSpanish National Research Council | CSIC · Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados
Ana M. González Ramos
PhD
Sociology, Gender, Health, ICT
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Introduction
I work on gender, ICT, health and wellbeing and poorly being, professional careers, science and technology, peace, violence against women, studies of the Intenet and social networks.
I'll be happy if you want to contact me for projects, work, advice and any kind of things relate to investigation
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July 2020 - November 2021
September 2017 - March 2020
Position
- Professor (Assistant)
Description
- I'm teaching Sociology, Qualitative Methods and the ICT influences on people's lives. I yet find time to develop editorial journal responsibility at Sociology and Technoscience, research on GENDER & ICT studies and do activism through FEM3.0
September 2007 - June 2019
Position
- Senior Researcher
Description
- Senior researcher in the IN3 (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute) of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). Lines of research: women’s careers in academia and entreprises, gender and ICT relationships and mobility of the highly skilled professionals.
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In this chapter the authors analyse different forms of gender and class discrimination in Spanish academic institutions. Androcentrism in terms of the structures of academic institutions, the meritocratic system, the rhythms and contents of work present barriers for women advancing into positions of leadership. The intersectionality of gender and c...
Lockdown during COVID-19 forced the emergence of a new scenario, with men and women teleworkers spending all their time at home. The purpose of this study is to address whether this situation has triggered a transformation in gender roles and self-reported well-being, comparing the responses of male and female respondents to the EUROFOUND April to...
Las mujeres deben formar parte de la fuerza laboral de un país y de las estructuras políticas y sociales de un Estado. Además, la participación femenina debe corresponderse tanto con el ámbito de la creación y producción como de la toma de decisiones. En la medida en que las mujeres estén en el poder, la sociedad equilibrará la composición de hombr...
The ICT sector is becoming a strategic and growing sector in our current societies and economies. However, gender inequalities persist and women’s representation in ICT is still low in Catalonia and Spain. In this article, we introduce the situation of women working in ICT and seek to identify the main barriers and opportunities for their progress....
Spain was very hard hit by the pandemic and was also one of the first to implement the strictest confi nement measures. Social services are a key sector for alleviating the social impacts on citizens. We conducted an online survey to investigate the work that has been done by social workers employed by the Community of Madrid and the Madrid City Co...
Las mujeres deben formar parte de la fuerza laboral de un país y de las estructuras políticas y sociales de un Estado. Además, la participación femenina debe corresponderse tanto con el ámbito de la creación y producción como de la toma de decisiones. En la medida en que las mujeres estén en el poder, la sociedad equilibrará la composición de hombr...
La 4ª revolución industrial enfrenta diversos retos relacionados con la diversidad de la fuerza laboral y cambios sustanciales en sus estilos de vida, la necesidad de gestionar crisis sucesivas, y aumentar la digitalización como dinámica global competitiva. Todo ello sostenido sobre una ética del trabajo orientada al éxito profesional, y centrado e...
¿Son los trastornos de la conducta de la alimentación un etiquetaje como en el pasado lo fue la histeria o la posesión demoníaca? La anorexia y la bulimia aluden a una variedad de prácticas, en formas y grados diferentes, que pueden ser o no peligrosas para la salud y requieren apoyo médico, psicológico y sociológico. La apreciación de la dimensión...
The technology is part of the current systems of control and surveillance, intersects the states security policies, and shapes routines and
habits of people crossing borders. This work address on the role of
contemporary technologies in the travellers’ discipline, how it intersects with the mobility and transport rights taking into account several...
"Why do we translate family and employment as competitive spheres?"
I would like to finish this chapter with a message for the youngest readers who
might be thinking about pursuing a scientific career. During our lives, unexpected
events happen, opportunities and sometimes flaws that we would turn into
opportunities; the excellence adopts multiple...
Experiences shared by the Global Young Academy Women in Science Working Group
El uso masivo de las tecnologías, especialmente, referido a la participación en las redes sociales y las aplicaciones móviles parecen abocados a proporcionarnos una extensión de humanidad que las herramientas digitales no tienen realmente. Las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación suponen retos y amenazas para la población, especialmente...
RESUMEN A lo largo de esta década, las mujeres tecnológicas han estado organizándose en hackspaces con el objetivo de aprender, desarrollar y compartir experiencias que respondan a sus anhelos y competencias digitales situadas. Dentro de este contexto, esta investigación desplaza el foco de análisis tradicional centrado en la escasez de mujeres en...
La sociedad del conocimiento presenta retos esenciales fundamentales para la gestión del personal de ciencia, tecnología e innovación. Se exigen altas cualificaciones y competencias digitales, internacionalización y autogestión de las carreras profesionales; y se conjuga con las prácticas de gestión neogerencialista, la temporalidad, la incertidumb...
The mass use of technologies, especially, in terms of participation in social networks and mobile apps seems oriented to providing an extension of humanity to digital tools that they do not really possess. Information and communication technologies pose challenges and threats to the public, particularly, due to the sometimes unreflecting and irresp...
La inclusión de las mujeres en las empresas tecnológicas propone un reto para las sociedades contemporáneas, dada la importancia y valor económico de este sector y la necesidad de aprovechar todo el talento disponible. La persistente menor proporción de mujeres en este ámbito ha generado numerosas teorías y datos con el objetivo de descubrir las cl...
Communication technologies have become essential for connecting people from different countries searching for employment and challenging careers. Highly skilled migrants keep in touch with family members through communication technologies, which have engendered intimacy based on long distance relationships. This work explores the use of communicati...
From a Foucauldian approach, neoliberal rationality in science can be understood as a form of governance of the self that produces mechanisms through which the subject is constructed and subordinated at the same time. In this study we examine subjectivation processes and gender in centres of research created under neoliberal scientific rationality....
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Pots consultar el text adjunt si t'interessa fer alguna contribució a aquest monogràfic
Información sobre la revista/information about the journal/informació sobre la revista
http://www.revistadebat...
The relationship between literature and social networking sites (SNS) is a material context in which authors and readers merge into each other to create a literary communicative process that transforms contemporary politics. The aim of this paper is to analyse the communicative process by investigating the continuum between matter and discourse fro...
Los avances logrados en la dimensión de género y políticas públicas en el ámbito científico han sido notables si examinamos los resultados y la evolución positiva de los indicadores proporcionados por el Instituto Europeo de Igualdad de Género en los últimos
años, especialmente, en aquellos aspectos donde algunos países mantenían menos ratio de igu...
The authors of this special issue show comparative legislation about revengeporn, the evolution of romantic love in fanfiction, the media treatment of the harassement including the female and the male bodies, the influence of technologies in the global phenomenon of women and girls trafficking, and both harassment and co-learning process through te...
En este texto introductorio las editoras presentan el monográfico sobre la cosificación y la mercantilización de las mujeres.
Some theories emphasize work-life balance as primary factor of retention and promotion of women in ICT sector. In GENTALENT project, we surveyed 326 women in order to address their labour conditions. Findings show women overcoming few handicap (even lesser extent than it is expected) regarding work-life balance, but they display negative perception...
Patriarchy dominates systems of knowledge across religion, popular culture and medicine, constructing gender and sexuality. It subordinates women through categories related to health and illness, goodness and evil. "Possessed women" condense the idea of order subversion through the disorder of the soul and the body. Men assume the position as the k...
Despite advances in gender policy and equality laws in the twenty-first century, women are still a minority in the full professor category in Europe. Some measures establish gender quotas to balance gatekeeper positions, which will supposedly pave the way to make women’s integration into senior higher education positions easier. In Spain, Organic A...
In recent decades, scientific institutions have undergone significant changes due to new managerialism and the application of excellence in research. This research model has given rise to tensions related to increasing pressures and working demands in a competitive international environment that accelerate the pace of academic life. In addition, pr...
El avance de las mujeres en la ciencia ha sido cuantitativo y cualitativo
en los últimos años. Por una parte, en cuanto al avance cuantitativo, la
incorporación de las mujeres desde finales del siglo pasado ha alcanzado
un volumen significativo de efectivos en algunas áreas. En algunos ámbitos,
como en las humanidades, superan en número a los hombr...
Women represent over the half of university graduates in Spain. However, the percentage of women graduating with degrees in Computing and Engineering drops to 23% (European Commission. [2016. She figures. Brussels: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation]). Women are a minority in the workplace in the IT sector, despite it being one of the...
El personal académico viene afrontando situaciones de vulnerabilidad y precariedad en el contexto español y europeo. Por un lado, la situación de crisis proporciona una justificación a los recortes en financiación para ciencia y universidades; por otro, la dinámica neo-gerencialista produce nuevas condiciones simbólicas y materiales basadas en la c...
In this work we consider that bodies are individual, social and symbolic producers of discourses about identity. Through the exploration of the connections between bodies, gender meanings and sexualities, we aim to unveil the values and mean- ings of gender that we associate to feminine bodies; we also aim to analyze the referential categories for...
It is no secret that the 'glass ceiling' preventing women advancing to leadership positions exists in academia as well. Spain is no exception. Gender relations are usually investigated independently of other power relations like class and ethnicity. In our sample (80 men and women in different academic institutions across Spain) we found that not o...
RESUMEN La excelencia en la ciencia es definida como un proceso neutro para la selección y el reconocimiento de las teorías e investigaciones más valiosas. Este principio está basado en la metrización de la vida académica a través del empleo de criterios universales que apoyan el juego justo y la igualdad de oportunidades. Sin embargo, las teorías...
The technology labour market, where women are in the minority, represents an opportunity for employment in Spain. This paper analyses the data from the Labour Force Survey (known by its abbreviation in Spanish, ?EPA?) in relation to the population employed in the technological sector. The gender segregation of the employed population is analysed by...
Los mensajes triunfalistas sobre la incorporación de mujeres en ámbitos científicos, sin embargo, ocultan una realidad invisible, que sólo los estudios feministas han abordado y demostrado con evidencias. Estos estudios aportan perspectivas analíticas que revelan
las complejas relaciones entre mujeres y hombres, marcadas por las estructuras del pod...
The literature on women in STEM areas displays the barriers that women face at scientific workplaces, showing important interaction where they do and undo gender. However, there is a lack of research about the extent men and women do and undo gender in networking environments. This is a participant observation at Human-Computer Interactions annual...
Teaching Gender: Feminist Pedagogy and Responsibility in Times of Political Crisis addresses the neoliberalization of the university, what this means in real terms, and strategic pedagogical responses to teaching within this context across disciplines and region.
Inspired by bell hooks’ "transgressive school" and Donna Haraway’s "responsibility",...
RESUMEN La incorporación paulatina de prácticas neoliberales en las organizaciones científicas ha dado lugar a profundos cambios en los modelos de carrera científica de hombres y mujeres. Actualmente, sus trayectorias se caracterizan por una intensa movilidad internacional y un modelo de progresión individualizada, puesto que las carreras profesion...
The inclusion of women in IT is a challenge for future economy. Although women compose half of population, majority of designers are men which influence the methodology and goals on technological products. Male-dominated environments entail handicaps to women designers who usually adopt a male perspective in working with technologies. This paper fo...
ICT is a key sector for developing contemporary economies and it entails an opportunity for increasing the employment rates internationally. Women were traditionally underrepresented; therefore, we need to reinforce their role in the international labor market. Before the implementation of positive actions, we need to know what is the situation and...
La movilidad del personal altamente cualificado supone una expulsión de las presonas más capacitadas, por lo que los gobiernos deben asegurar su retorno al país. En el este trabajo de diseminación se reflexiona sobre el papel de los estados y los programas de atracción de científicos y tecnólogos.
Why is the gender gap so large in researchers’ career progression? Do men and women have different priorities in their academic careers? This study explores men’s and women’s academic work to shed light on the strategies of male and female researchers. The online survey collected data on Andalusian researchers to determine possible differences in a...
The disparity between men and women in science is a hot topic in gender studies and a relevant target of scientific policies. The leaky pipeline metaphor illustrates the decreasing number of women along senior positions in academia; however many questions remain unanswered. What factors progressively diminish the number of women in scientific caree...
This study focuses on analysing human resource mobility policies in Science and Technology (S&T). The analysis of mobility programmes provides information about the fast changes occurring within the Spanish S&T system, particularly with regard to the flow of human resources. Since the late 1990s, human resource policies have been aimed at reversing...
This study focuses on analysing human resource mobility policies in Science and Technology (S & T). The analysis of mobility programmes provides information about the fast changes occurring within the Spanish S & T system, particularly with regard to the flow of human resources. Since the late 1990s, human resource policies have been aimed at rever...
This paper addresses the impact of digital inclusion in life conditions of low-income women who may stir a process of transformation due to the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies). Supposedly, ICT and especially the Internet has been highlighted as powerful instrument for social change. Internet users would improve life conditions and,...
With the emergence of Information and Communication technologies and third wave feminism, new opportunities for women involved in ICT have been emphasized with critical optimism.
Feminists of technology have approached gender and technology from diverse conceptions and feminisms. Nowadays feminist research is moving from the concern of numbers and...
Los valores relacionados con la familia y la estructura familiar son decisivos para consolidar las trayectorias profesionales de las mujeres científicas. Al mismo tiempo, las condiciones laborales y profesionales en ciencia (movilidad, implicación en el trabajo, etc.) condicionan las estructuras familiares de estas mujeres. Los resultados de este t...
This special issue has been elaborated mostly with communications presented at the V New Materialist Conference on the 25th and 26th of September 2014, in Barcelona. Hosted by the Interdisciplinary Internet Institute at the Open University of Catalonia, this event was also the kick-off conference of the COST Action 1307: “New Materialism: Networkin...
The lack of women in technology and engineering studies and careers has yielded a high number of theoretical and empirical studies. Policies to attract female talent have had a positive influence, but women are still a minority in these areas. This paper addresses the question from other perspectives, exploring the culture of merit and the system o...
This work analyses the migration experience of managers and entrepreneurs involved in innovation sectors. The first objective is to identify explanatory factors of the international mobility of highly skilled personnel, while the second is to analyze the influence of international mobility in the professional careers of these individuals. The analy...
The mobile careers of executives and entrepreneurs may be a primary source of change in organisations as intermediaries in a fruitful innovation culture. This paper explores to what extent managers' international experience may be transferred to R&D and innovation systems. The expected outcome is that international careers do affect management in n...
Throughout history the division of gender roles has been a serious impediment for women working in science. Although they never desisted from conducting research, firstly as amateur and later as professional, they stood outside of scientific institutions and even now they hold low positions of ladder career. Women are finally in research institutio...
El presente trabajo analiza la experiencia migratoria de personas directivas y empresarias en sectores innovadores. El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en primer lugar en la identificación de los factores explicativos de la movilidad internacional del personal altamente cualificado. En segundo lugar, se analiza la influencia que tiene la movilidad...
La escasa presencia de mujeres en los estudios y carreras tecnológicas y de ingeniería ha generado un volumen importante de trabajos teóricos, así como investigaciones empíricas. Las políticas de atracción de talento femenino han incidido positivamente, pero las mujeres aún siguen siendo minoritarias en estas áreas. Este estudio aborda el problema...
International mobility of the highly skilled has become one of the cornerstones of development in the current knowledge society.
Correspondingly, highly skilled personnel are impelled to move abroad in order to improve their competences and build influential professional networks. Mobility implies some advantages involving personal, social and fami...
International mobility has become a key requirement in science and technology (S&T) professional career progression. On the one hand, the increasing mobility of women suggests that this may be a way for them to avoid or get away from women-unfriendly working environments. On the other hand, international mobility can present problems for women as t...
En las últimas décadas, se ha realizado un gran esfuerzo centrado en la formación de los profesionales españoles altamente cualificados. Además, la competitividad económica y la evolución positiva de los indicadores de ciencia y la innovación tecnológica han atraído el talento extranjero. El presente artículo se centra en las estrategias protagoniz...
A consideration of the role that international mobility plays in the careers of highly skilled women in ICT is becoming essential. Firstly, international mobility has an effect on the training phase and the subsequent development of women's careers. Secondly, since globalisation shapes the international labour market, this poses new challenges for...
The following article summarizes the meta-analysis of policies towards gender equality in science and research across Europe spanning the years 1980 to 2008. Observed overarching trends in the research literature are summarized, including the impact of higher education restructuring on gender equality in science and research and measures for advanc...
The presence and position of women workin in ICT companies in Spain has untill now been unchartered territory. This working paper is based on a research Project looking at women’s participation and position int he ICT Sector in Spain. Empirical research consisted of both quantitative and qualitative analysis including a survey to 327 companies (48%...
Social studies of science have dealt with the scientific communities from different viewpoints. However, it has been impossible hitherto to determine the social processes of scientific activity configuration. On the one hand, the limits of the specialities remain unclear and this uncertainty increases as the technological and epistemological proces...
La desagregación de los indicadores de ciencia y tecnología ha puesto de manifiesto la brecha de género. La incorporación de la mujer depende tanto de sus elecciones particulares como de los obstáculos en el acceso y consolidación de sus carreras. Las claves de esta desigualdad se encuentran en la estructura de la carrera científica y en los sesgos...
RESUMEN En este trabajo se estudia el impacto de la política de recursos humanos sobre el territorio, atendiendo tanto a su distribución regional como a la influencia que ejerce la caracteriza-ción del personal investigador. De hecho, la política de recursos humanos incide en los territorios, definiendo su capacidad de creación de ciencia y tecnolo...
Los estudios sobre los sistemas de investigación, desarrollo e innovación (I+D+i) han realizado avances significativos al adoptar una perspectiva regional, con análisis más ajustados de las características de los actores en la estructura económica y social. También la clase política ha prestado más atención a la planificación de las políticas públi...
The increasing of relevance of Information and Communications
Technologies (ICT) activity would meant
a positive remodel for the female position in the labour
market and, especially, in the research career. Nevertheless
data unconfirmed this argument, since the structures
embed deeply in society also affect to this new
sector. Scientific and techno...
A great body of literature evidences the low representation of women in technology-related fields. However, few research lines have analyzed the role played by women in the field of research on ICTs. The main aim of this paper is to explore the participation and position of women in a group of public and private institutions doing research in the f...
El propósito de este trabajo es reflexionar sobre algunos problemas que de-ben tenerse presentes a la hora de tomar decisiones en base a un sistema de in-dicadores o de datos procedentes de encuestas. Especialmente si se refieren a fe-nómenos complejos que atañen a elementos intangibles como sucede en los sistemas de ciencia, tecnología e innovació...
Cada vez somos más conscientes de que la producción del conocimiento científico ha de ser medida y evaluada para conocer la importancia de las aportaciones realizadas y la calidad de los resultados obtenidos por los investigadores. Solo el curso del tiempo ha dado lugar a un acuerdo implícito sobre esta cuestión, con ideas generales que afectan a t...
Los estudios sociales sobre la ciencia han abordado de distintas maneras el trabajo realizado por las comunidades científicas refiriéndose a las características de sus miembros. Sin embargo, aún no se han determinado suficientemente los procesos de configuración social de la actividad científica. Por una parte, los limites entre las especialidades...
RESUMEN La evaluación de la actividad científica es una operación indiscutible pero no lo es tanto la manera en que se ha de llevar a cabo. Los autores sostienen que esta operación no sólo debe contener un resumen de los logros conseguidos (índice de impacto, número de artículos publicados) sino también otros indicadores que reflejen el proceso y l...
Este trabajo de investigacion supone un modelo teorico de caracter
aplicado, que proporciona la oportunidad de evaluar la produccion
cientifica de los investigadores. Se encuadra dentro de la tradiccion de
la estadistica aplicada y la sociologia del conocimiento. Atiende
especialmente a dos conjuntos de temas de interes, por una parte, las
caracter...
Although the presence of women in universities and research centers is on the increase, the dearth of women in the ICT field is not something new. As we ascend in the hierarchy of research activities, women's under- representation becomes more evident. The main aim of this paper is to analyze the presence and position of women in ICT research activ...
Questions
Questions (2)
Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 is threatening the netethnography we are doing. Ethical committees are claiming to safeguard of users' data during the research process, preventing our analysis about users. But how we can prevent dangerous practices in the Internet without valued information of users' behavior in cyberspace? Or, how improve the impact of good practice in health, gender discrimination etc among users of cyberspace without a throughtout information about them?
I am working about ethics problems on gender and control of bordes mediated by technology. I would like to know other people working on it
