ABSTRACT
Putting care at the center—as activities that allow “sustaining life”—implies a review and restructuring of how institutions and their activities are organized. Universities are not exempt from this review and from rethinking themselves as spaces that are also co-responsible for integrating care into the framework of their structures and, therefore, for revising their regulations and practices. The influence of care is increasingly highlighted in studies on the factors that explain and maintain gender inequalities in university institutions. From the empirical evidence produced, which is still scarce in our region and country, different gaps are recognized that result in a “slowing down” and/or lower productivity on the part of women, a lower probability of accessing permanent and/or full-time positions, a training career marked by interruptions or postponements, difficulties in international mobility, among other aspects. This chapter aims to analyze some of the effects that the unequal distribution of care has on the labor trajectories of researchers at the University of the Republic, Uruguay. For this purpose, we conducted an online survey in which we measured the level of satisfaction with various activities related to academic life, the main milestones identified, their expectations, decisions, and postponements to balance their work and care activities.
