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Patriarchal Culture Summary

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Vineeta Bal obtained her MD in Microbiology from Haffkine Institute, Mumbai, after completing her M.B. B.S. from University of Pune. She did her Ph.D. from the Royal Post-graduate Medical School, London. She is a biologist and she has focused on the condition of women biologists in India. In this article Vineeta Bal has focussed on women scientists in biology where they are faced with a lot of gender-based disadvantages in a patriarchal culture like India. Bal, says that despite their education levels, the prevalent patriarchal culture affects the careers of women scientists. She has therefore looked at the situation through a career development perspective. However Bal has collected data only for women biologists since they are more in number in this field rather than others. …show more content…

Thus a stable, ‘permanent’ job is the major prerequisite, the qualifications for which differ than Ph.D. positions. The main problem arising for women scientists is however peer acceptance which influences career attainment positively or negatively. As for example peer recommendations are important for promotions etc. These help in achieving high positions, but for Bal, the position of women in their career targets is unclear. Research says that women’s representation as permanent employees is less compared to ones obtaining Ph.Ds. in educational institutions. A major reason for this is that women get married by their 30s. Thus decisions regarding family are far obligatory for women than men (patriarchal culture). This affects women’s careers since long/short breaks leads to poor professionalism since there is no gender-based discrimination for competition of jobs. Thus it severely affects women’s careers since they are unable to get permanent jobs even in the lowest rung despite educational

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