Práticas culturais patriarcais e o comportamento maternar de mulheres no contexto universitário

Abstract

Based on behavioral analytic literature, it is understood that gender is a socially constructed concept based on differential reinforcement, in which biological sex is a discriminating stimulus for access to reinforcers. Patriarchy is based on this unequal access to reinforcers and is established as a culture, more specifically the culture of male domination, made up of various cultural practices that are passed down from generation to generation and maintained by control agencies that contribute to preserving this culture. Based on this assumption, the current study aimed to elucidate in general terms the contingencies experienced by women who are mothers in the scientific academic environment, through an interpretative theoretical study that aimed to interpret concepts such as culture, patriarchy and counter-control about these phenomena experienced by these women, from a behavioral analytical perspective. It is understood that patriarchy contributes to the maintenance of aversive contingencies experienced by women who have children; however, feminist movements contribute as political counter-control practices so that reinforcing contingencies are accessed in an equitable manner.