Article ID: CBB787302390

Women and the Workplace. Collaborative Networks of Women Geneticists in Mexico in the 1960s and early 1970s (2020)

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This paper will address the collaborative networks and the gendered organization of the scientific work at the first Unit on Human Genetics of the Mexican Institute for Social Security. There, women and men had different tasks, duties and authority according to their gender and individual and professional skills. I will focus on physician Susana Kofman, who specialized in cytogenetics with Jérôme Lejeune and Jean de Grouchy in France, and physician Leonor Buentello, who graduated in virus genetics in Germany. This narrative intends to return them to the forefront of the history of cytogenetics and to illustrate the contribution of women to scientific developments when research on human genetics was becoming a medical domain for diagnosis at an international level. [End Page 201]

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Authors & Contributors
Barahona, Ana Echeverría
Virginia López Villegas
Zachmann, Karin
Wennerholm, Staffan
Verde Casanova, Ana
Steinhauser, Thomas
Concepts
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Women in science
Human genetics
Science and gender
International cooperation
Cross-national interaction
Time Periods
20th century, late
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
18th century
Places
Germany
France
Mexico
Great Britain
United States
Sweden
Institutions
Women's Engineering Society
Institut Pasteur, Paris
Human Genome Project
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