Women’s Day: How is the place of women in leadership positions in educational entities changing?

It is 8 March commemorates the Women’s day, celebrating the achievements and struggles of women around the world, especially in Peru. A gap that remains to be closed and which, in many sectors, continues to break these glass ceilings.

In education, women play a very important role, demonstrating intellectual abilities that have led them to obtain important positions and despite the fact that it is still difficult to continue climbing, there are more companies in the sector private and public who continue to bet on it.

GlobeLiveMedia spoke with Kety Jáuregui, Academic Vice-Chancellor of ESAN University, to deepen this subject and thus demonstrate that women are more than ready for new challenges, new professions and new positions.

“If we look a little at the statistics, this participation of women is not yet achieved in an equitable way and despite the fact that the struggle has been going on for years, this result cannot yet be achieved in full. However, there are more women who face this reality and they participate more in the education and labor market. In 2021, 11 countries were analyzed, including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, on a gender gap, in academic products, and it was identified that 42 .8% participated at least one woman as an author or as an author. And four countries in this study reported only one woman, at least as an author. So him Peru was still in this study, as the penultimate place, did not reach a single 28% which perhaps in other Latin American countries reaches“, he expressed.

However, for the specialist, all is not lost, since in recent years it has been possible to see the presence of women in fundamental roles in education, highlighting the participation of the rector of San Marcos University, who is a woman. Additionally, she has acknowledged that in the higher entity she leads, there are women occupying positions that were previously held only by men.

“Compared to eight years ago, we were not seeing women in ‘important’ positions, now we are seeing the participation of more women leaders. was achieved, because having more women present marks a milestone as they chart the path that many of us will follow,” she said for our medium.

According to a report by the National Civil Service Authority (Serve), details that the participation of women in the Peruvian civil service in 2020 was similar in percentage to 2019, the highest average annual growth rate was maintained among women (2.1%) compared to men (0.8 %); there is a strong presence at regional (57%) and national (47%) levels, but not at local level (32%). On the other hand, it is clear that they are overrepresented in sectors associated with life care, such as women (72%), health (66%) and education (57%), which confirms the role socially attributed to care, also in the public sphere.

With regard to the labor regimes through which women are hired, there has been an increase in the regime of administrative service contracts (CAS), presenting equal participation (51%) compared to men (49%). However, differences persist between occupational groups, particularly among civil servants and managers.

Women’s participation increased by 1 percentage point compared to the previous year and by 5 percentage points during the period 2004 – 2020, the average annual growth was 2.1%, thus reaching 48% in 2020, while men saw an annual growth of 0.8. %. According to the level of government, civil servants show a greater presence in regional entities (57%), then come the national (47%) and local (32%) entities.

“For example, at the university I run, the 60% of master’s degree It’s occupied by women and that gives us an indicator that more women are preparing, more women are advancing professionally, that they are not afraid to step out of their comfort zone to take on new challenges. What remains for us as an institution, not only in private but also in public, is also to open up more opportunities for low-income women so that they too can develop in their education and have more opportunities,” he said. Kety Jáuregui, Academic Vice-Chancellor of ESAN University for GlobeLiveMedia.

Regarding the level of studies, Reniec enrolled 1,225,562 women with higher education degrees (6.76%), 8,456,225 women holding a secondary education diploma (46.64%); 3,916,975 women with primary education (21.6%); 127,986 women with technical training (0.71%) and 312,219 women with an Initial level of training (1.72%), not to mention Special Education with 6,232 (0.03%) women with this level of training.

In addition, there is a female group of 4,081,733 (22.51%) who declared the state of illiterate; and 3,766 (0.02%) who did not specify the level of education in their DNI.

According to National register of identification and civil status (Reniec) announced that to date, 18,130,698 women are identified with an identity document (50% of the total registered population); Of these, 623,121 (3.44%) are located in foreign territory such as the American continent (387,359), Europe (209,259), Asia (21,877), Oceania (4,392) and Africa (234).

The largest group of the female population is between 18 and 29 years old, with 3,413,315; 1,024,806 of this category reside in Lima, followed by La Libertad (203,626), Piura (203,211); Cajamarca (163,363) and Cusco (156,709).