Maternités en lutte. Quelles maternités pour les travailleuses de l’ESR ?
Based on a call for testimonials launched in 2020, this brief report seeks to address the way in which higher education and research (HER), as a working environment, conditions relationships to motherhood according to various experiences in the constrained and competitive climate in which we live. I...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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ENS Éditions
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Tracés |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/traces/11939 |
| Summary: | Based on a call for testimonials launched in 2020, this brief report seeks to address the way in which higher education and research (HER), as a working environment, conditions relationships to motherhood according to various experiences in the constrained and competitive climate in which we live. In the context of the struggles of recent months, one of the objectives of which has been precisely to draw public attention to and debate on our working conditions, the aim is to stimulate thinking on the careers and professions of women in HER. From doctoral and post-doctoral students to tenured staff, the colleagues who responded to the call underlined the multidimensional nature of the relations of domination that play out around the desire to have children, to be a mother and to assume parental responsibilities. These relationships operate at all levels, but to different degrees and in different forms depending on status, institutions, disciplines and trajectories (social and academic). Nevertheless, a convergence is emerging: the production by HER institutions of timescales modelled on male practices and representations of academic professions, which affect the subjectivity of women workers and hinder their plans to build a family. This situation is obviously aggravated by the structural insecurity of the professions dedicated to the production and transmission of knowledge, by the fragmentation of labour collectives and the dominant value placed on competitiveness. Furthermore, the difficulties we encountered in putting together the report make it possible to point out that the issue of maternity raises the voice of women on a subject that is both political and intimate, indirectly reflecting social and gender violence and blockages, but also defence strategies that must be discussed more urgently than ever before. |
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| ISSN: | 1763-0061 1963-1812 |