Resumen

GUEL RODRIGUEZ, Juan Manuel. Gender and empowerment: a life story told through the experience of teaching in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Diálogos sobre educ. Temas actuales en investig. educ. [online]. 2019, vol.10, n.18, 00006. ISSN 2007-2171.

Historically, teaching - like other professions associated with subservience - represented an opportunity for women to enter public life. However, such professions are culturally regarded as semi-professions due to their use of “natural” abilities such as motherhood or parenting. In Mexico, despite the fact that teaching is a feminized space, positions of power have been reserved for males, which lends itself to analysis to try to understand this phenomenon.

This qualitative research relies on the biographical method, one of whose tools is the life story. Open and in-depth formal interviews were used to analyze the teaching career of Rocio, who for more than a decade held important educational management positions, proving to be an atypical case of empowerment and a story that can be told from a gender perspective.

Palabras llave : gender; empowerment; teaching; stereotypes.