Qualitative Female Researchers in Academia: Challenges and Contradictions

This piece reflects on how training in critical qualitative research impacts the academic work and lives of female qualitative researchers. In a higher education system dominated by quantitative logics of productivity and daily life, the possibilities of promotion and permanence in the academy are conditioned. Therefore, we consider necessary to better understand the experiences of crossing academic cultures that impact both, in first person and in the academic communities of qualitative research focused on social transformation. This piece seeks to contribute to the relevance of qualitative research training processes from postmodern paradigms toward the recognition of politically defined academic positions.