Research Fields
Social Psychology of Gender
Gender and politics
Gender and professions
CV
Maria
Helena
Santos is
currently
an
integrated
member
of
the
CIS-IUL,
where
she
was
a
post-doctoral
researcher
between
2012
and
2018.
She
has
a
degree
(2001),
a
master's
degree
(2004)
and
a
PhD
(2011)
in
Social
and
Organizational
Psychology
from
ISCTE-IUL. During
the
first
three
years
of
her
postdoctoral
project, she
worked
at
the
Centre
en
Études
Genre
LIEGE,
University
of
Lausanne,
Switzerland,
and
at
CIS-IUL. She
has
been
coordinator
of
the
Gender,
Sexualities
and
Intersectionality
Thematic
Line
between
2017
and
2019
and
co-coordinator
of
the
Psychange
research
group
between 2018
and
2021.Maria
Helena
Santos'
research
interests
have
focused
on
gender
studies
and
affirmative
action,
specifically
in
the
markedly
masculine
(e.g.
politics
and
medicine)
and
feminine
(e.g.
nursing
and
basic
education)
professional
contexts
in
order
to
understand
how
gender
influences
the
tokenism
dynamics,
i.e.
the
experiences
s
and
reactions
of
women
in
"
men's
worlds
"
and
men
in
"
women's
worlds
".
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