College womens and decision-making spaces: comparative study in Mexican Institutions of higher education

Abstract

This investigation seeks to explore in a comparative way the participation of college wo­man in the Mexican public states universities that allows a picture of the progress that tho­se institutions have had in equity and parity terms in the academy and, eventually in the decision-making positions of college life. The data shows an academy where the woman is evaluated from a male vision and generally, from the paradigm of meritocracy. To prime woman the access to a power and decision making positions, entails to consider the femi­nine talent that has been invisibilized, beyond of a displacement for lower qualification.