Género, ciencia y ciudadanía

Abstract

The article intends to reflect on some reject and apparent lack of concern from women (which is sometimes interpreted as incapacity) to take part and compete in the toughest branches of science, as well as to compete for elevated positions in the field of politics. The usual interpretations forget the permanence of an essentially androcentric model, anchored in the subjectivity and gender, in the conception of the subject of science and citizenship. The conditions of access of women to the institutions can not be discussed, without discussing first the legitimacy of a model that is pretended to be neutral and a genuine expression of nature, in the case of science and expression of «human condition», in the case of politics. This discussion acquires a special interest in the latin-american context, when a geopolitical debate about center and periphery is not given place to.