The International Seminar of the Free Choices Project | Stereotypes do not make my gender: vocational and professional choices free from prejudice. The project is promoted by UMAR - Union of Alternative and Responsive Women and funded by the Gender Equality and Reconciliation Programme of the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism - EEA Grants 2014-2021. The purpose of the seminar was to publicise the project's objectives and results to date, encouraging critical reflection on gender stereotypes and vocational and professional choices in the school context.
Research fellow at Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (CIEG), she investigates issues related to women and the media. With a degree in Communication Sciences from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with a specialization in Journalism, she is a journalist for more than two decades. She was executive editor of Máxima magazine and Lifestyle editor of Vogue Portugal magazine, having participated and coordinated several editorial projects in the Portuguese press.
Summary of the thesis project: Women in the Portuguese Press: Gender Bias, Leadership and Female Agency in the Newsrooms.
This research aims to: characterize the participation of journalists in the newsrooms of the Portuguese written press; Analyze the impacts and constraints resulting from gender biases in the career path and progression of female journalists; Explore the gender de/construction performed by women in leadership positions; Understand how gender stereotypes and potential biases revealed or perceived by journalists influence newsroom interactions and routines; Characterize the gender biases present in journalistic content.
The research follows a mixed methodological strategy, through the application of the Explanatory Sequential Mixed Method (Creswell & Creswell, 2018): after a first stage, based on a questionnaire survey to male and female journalists from the Portuguese generalist press, semi-structured interviews were conducted (only to women, in different hierarchical positions).
Topics of interest: Gender, Media, Journalism
Publications and scientific communications
• 2024 - At the Base of the Iceberg: Impacts of Gender Bias in the lives of women journalists; paper given at the 3rd International Congress of the CIEG.
• 2024 - Gender relations in Portuguese newsrooms: what has (not) changed. Faces de Eva. Estudos sobre a Mulher, Dez 2023, no.50, p.79-100. ISSN 0874-6885
• 2023 - Female journalists who have reached the top: perceptions on communication, leadership, and gender bias in the Portuguese press. Corporate Communications: An International Journal. DOI: 10.1108/CCIJ-01-2023-0004. Licence: Gold Open Access
Other publications
• 30/01/2024: Interview with Anália Torres, director of CIEG
https://www.maxima.pt/atual/detalhe/analia-torres-a-consciencia-da-desigualdade-leva-algum-tempo-a-conquistar
• 04/03/2024: Interview with sociologist Paula Espírito Santo (Gender and electoral behaviour)
https://www.maxima.pt/atual/detalhe/paula-espirito-santo-cerca-de-70-ou-mais-das-pessoas-filiadas-em-partidos-sao-homens
• 8/05/2023: Interviews with female sports journalists
https://www.maxima.pt/atual/detalhe/pontas-de-lanca-seis-mulheres-que-dominam-o-tema-desporto-em-portugal
• 14/03/2023: Interview with journalist Felícia Cabrita https://www.maxima.pt/atual/detalhe/entrevista-felicia-cabrita-sou-agnostica-nao-estou-aqui-a-defender-a-igreja-mas-nunca-dou-dispensa-a-imparcialidade
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Maria Emília de Oliveira Ferreira has a PhD in Contemporary Art History and a Master's in Art History from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon. She is Director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon.
Her areas of interest are Women's Studies, Art History in Portugal, Public Art Museums and Academies.
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Carla Cruz has a PhD in Communication Sciences with a specialism in Communication Sociology from Universidade Aberta, a Master's degree in Sociology from ISCSP-ULisboa and a degree in Social Communication from the same institution. Assistant Professor at ISCSP-ULisboa in the disciplinary areas of Communication Sciences, Sociology, Sociology of Organisations and Work and Human Resources Management. Researcher at the Centre for Administration and Public Policy (CAPP) in the Communication, Society and Culture group.
CV:
https://www.cienciavitae.pt/7F10-B72B-8815
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Ana Guerreiro has a PhD in Criminology from the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto (FDUP) and was a member of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Crime, Justice and Security (CJS). She is an Assistant Professor at UMaia and a Visiting Assistant Professor at FDUP. She is currently Director of the Research Unit in Criminology and Behavioural Sciences at UMaia (UICC/UMaia).
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CIEG’s 11th Anniversary Conference, dedicated to the theme "Student decolonial activism: Impacts on South African scholarship and gender studies in South Africa", on May 8, 2023, at ISCSP-ULisboa. The conference was attended by Professor Tamara Shefer, from University of Western Cape and was broadcast live on CIEG's Facebook page.
The event allowed academic discussion on decolonial student activism and its impact on gender studies in South Africa, with the participation of several researchers.
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