Abstract
This article aims to discuss gender issues in the academy by describing the trajectories of women faculty in Tourism, Hotel Management and Hospitality graduate programs in Brazil. All 71 women from 11 graduate programs were contacted. Thirty-one women from 10 graduate programs participated, representing 43% of the total. Interviews were used as data collection for a qualitative approach. After the interviews full transcript and the textual corpus thorough reading, the analysis was organized in academic training, career in higher education, and the intertwining of personal and professional life. In the analysis, it was identified that the trajectories of these women in research and teaching in Tourism were neither representative nor illustrative of a single female professor-researcher, but rather composed a shared version of how female professor-researchers work in Tourism. The authors concluded that the way those women deal with teaching and researching has a direct influence on how Tourism research takes place in Brazil. Furthermore, it was possible to observe that Brazilian female professors and researchers in the Tourism area face and experience gender-related challenges, in the same way as women in the labor market.
Keywords
Gender; Labor; Tourism graduate programs; Female trajectory; Female researcher