Gender Equality and Modernity in Portugal. An Analysis on the Obstacles to Gender Equality in Highly Qualified Professions

In this review article, we argue that the transformations related to modernisation of Portuguese society triggered by implementation democracy did not fully accommodate gender equality. particular, when consider areas where most progress has been made in keeping with a broadly shared urge for modernisation, education and science; whereas women have contributed boosting population’s level education, thus inverting worst legacy dictatorship developing scientific research, inequalities are still visible highly qualified professions. Reviewing results studies from different professions, science, medicine engineering, our analysis illustrates several factors hinder only recognition women’s competences merit at work but also their career opportunities. Some these rooted type ideology was central propaganda dictatorship, thereby establishing continuity previous regime seems particularly difficult break absence voices raise awareness on