Guanajuato, Gto., January 1, 2018.- "Education doesn't change the world, it changes the people who will change this world," sustained the pedagogue Paulo Freire, and with this premise, Dr. Cirila Cervera Delgado, a scholar of the Department of Education of the University of Guanajuato (UG), works in a project to see the gender asymmetries that exist in the institutions.

It is a work in which both female and make researchers of the campus Guanajuato, León and Celaya-Salvatierra of UG participate; as well as from the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, of the Universidad de Guadalajara and Spanish institutions, specially from the Universidad de Granada.

The result of this joint work was a report called "Crystal ceiling and sticky floor in the higher education institutions". The first concept makes references to that invisible top that prevent women to occupy levels of higher hierarchy in organizations. Although in this work they mainly occupy in the description of this phenomenon in two public universities: UG and the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas.

The preponderance of men in the highest levels has been socially normalized, "even the same scholars we realize that there is an inequality. If the floor is even, we talk about a sticky floor", sustains Dr. Cervera, who explains that this research invites to reflect on "the glues that hold women."

On the matter, she mentions that a limit for the woman to ascend places with more responsibility is maternity, because in Mexico, raising the children is a task –mostly—for women.

In Spain, for example, a professor can choose her work schedule, so she can take her child to school or pick him up, "and this is not for discussion, it is a common practice". I suppose it took them some years, but no one complaints for this alternative for the fact of being a mother, mentions the scholar who recognized that in this topic there still is a big gap in Mexico.

With this project, "we are stepping into an incipient terrain in our context, the studies we've made are more, descriptive", but are fundamental to dimension those asymmetries, and from there, derive institutional policies, she reiterated.

The Academic Body that is responsible for this research line is led by Dr. Mireya Martí Reyes, Director of the Department of Education of UG, and is composed by Dr. Cirila Cervera and Dr. Marcos Jacobo Estrada Ruiz, from the same academic entity; plus Dr. Sergio Jacinto Alejo López from Campus Celaya-Salvatierra.

Dr. Lucía Rodríguez Guzmán of Campus León of UG, and from the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Dr. Emilia Recéndez Guerrero and M. Juan José Girón Sifuentes, with whom this collaboration exists for a long time, same as with the scholars of the Universidad de Granada, Dr. Antonio Luzón Trujillo, Dr. Magdalena Jiménez Ramírez and Dr. Mónica Torres Sánchez also participate.

Because of this interinstitutional collaboration, the researchers contributed works that integrate the book "Tradición y desafíos. El género como factor de exclusión social y educativa", and collects several points of view and international policies, but also very practical cases, such as it happens with pregnant girls while they're students, details Dr. Cervera.

About these academic efforts, she reaffirmed that research on its own doesn't solve problems, but it is important to take it seriously, to place on the table valid conclusions for who make the decisions.

Besides, as an ascribed professor to the Department of Education, she highlighted that "we have the privilege to be with people we expect to influence in the formation of others. Because we have an educational planning, the planning of programs of study, the collaboration in the design of public policies in educational matter."

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