Alejandra Ramm
Biographic Data
| ID | 284322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alejandra Ramm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alejandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramm |
| SIGNATURE | RAMM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Valparaíso |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6419-7912 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“ I Can Do the Same as You ”. Women's Motivations for Entering and Remaining in Male‐Dominated Occupations in Chile
Despite the growing participation of women in the labor market, significant gender‐based occupational segregation persists, particularly in highly male‐dominated occupations. Existing research has largely explained women's entry into these occupations in terms of economic motivation, while paying less attention to how motivations for both entry and permanence are shaped by the intersection of class, family arrangements, and life trajectories, esp…
‘Beyond the fence it is something else’: The (in)visibility of lesbian, gay, and bi/pansexual couples within Chilean gated communities
As evidenced by feminist geographies, decisions to make lesbian, gay and bi/pansexual relationships visible are complex, as they involve different space representations and identity practices performed in different contexts. The purpose of this article is to examine the experiences of such couples, in this case, living in gated communities or condominiums in Santiago, Chile. By doing so, it explores whether—and how—the experiences of individuals …
Resignifying Equal and Specialized Distributions of Housework and Childcare within Cohabiting Same-Gender Couples in Chile
Same-gender couples typically appear as examples of complete egalitarianism. However, previous studies indicate that same-gender couples may also involve role specialization. We conducted 24 life history interviews with people in a same-gender relationship, cohabiting for at least one year in Chile, with the aim to explore distributions of housework and childcare and the ways interviewees justify their arrangements. Results show various resignifi…
It would be a problem for the family’: Queerness, family honour and familism in Chile
Family honour, protecting and upholding the family name, is central to familism. Yet, it has been somewhat neglected by scholarship on Latin American and Latino families. Familism involves prioritising the family over the individual. Likewise, the family of origin holds particular significance, offering material, social and emotional support, and shaping one's identity, honour and sense of belonging. Heteronormativity and patriarchy portray queer…
Trayectorias de convivencia no matrimonial: El rol de los hijos/as
Esta investigación estudia el rol que cumplen los/as hijos/as, en común y de relaciones previas, en las trayectorias de unión en parejas convivientes de distinto sexo en Chile. Utilizamos una metodología mixta, con base en análisis de sobrevivencia (cuantitativa) e historias de vida (cualitativa). Nuestros resultados cuantitativos indican que las parejas que conviven con hijos/as en común tienen un mayor riesgo de casarse y un menor riesgo de sep…
Protecting, Empowering, or Penalizing Motherhood? The Contradictory Treatment of Women in Chilean Social Policies
This article contributes to the discussion of gendered social policy in Latin America. Despite considerable attention to the Chilean case, few studies have provided a comparative analysis of how the articulation of gender through motherhood differs across social sectors. We contrast the case of the health sector with the examples of housing and labor market policies to demonstrate that the framing of motherhood in Chilean social policies is not u…
El backstage de la sociología: Tras bambalinas con Wright Mills, Sennett y Bauman
Este artículo reflexiona en torno a cómo se hace sociología en la práctica, siguiendo las ideas de Wright Mills en La imaginación sociológica, de Sennett en El artesano y de Bauman en ¿Para qué sirve realmente un sociólogo? A esto se suman las experiencias personales de la autora realizando trabajo intelectual como mujer y académica de una universidad pública de provincia. Se plantea que la sociología es una artesanía y que en tanto tal remite a …
Motherhood, Social Policies and Women's Activism in Latin America
Chilean Medical and Midwifery Faculty's Views on Conscientious Objection for Abortion Services
CONTEXT: In 2017, Chile reformed its abortion law to allow the procedure under limited circumstances. Exploring the views of Chilean medical and midwifery faculty regarding abortion and the use of conscientious objection (CO) at the time of reform can inform how these topics are being taught to the country's future health care providers. METHODS: Between March and September 2017, 30 medical and midwifery school faculty from universities in Santia…
Constraints that discourage participation in the labour market by female carers of older relatives in Santiago, Chile
Providing care for older people who have support needs is mainly a familial and female responsibility in Chile. Despite Chile's development level, the participation of females in the workforce lags behind (at around 50%), and 72% of female carers of an older relative are not in the labour force. This paper explores the reasons why in Latin America adult children remain out of the labour force while caring for an older parent or parent-in-law who …
Obviously there is a conflict between confidentiality and what you are required to do by law: Chilean university faculty and student perspectives on reporting unlawful abortions
Beyond the Second Demographic Transition: Cohabitation in Chile
Previous studies suggest that Latin America is entering into a Second Demographic Transition (SDT). This essay asks whether this theory can account for increasing cohabitation in Chile, contrasting this perspective with three alternative frameworks: gender revolution (GR), declining patriarchy (DP), and the pattern of disadvantage/dual marriage system (POD/DMS). We analyze available evidence from published works and from new research to explore t…
Changing Patterns of Kinship: Cohabitation, Patriarchy and Social Policy in Chile
Cohabitation is a distinctive feature of low-income groups in Latin America. In the past, it has been linked to colonial legacies including notions of familial honour, poverty, and a kinship system focused on blood ties. By contrast, some scholars consider rising levels of cohabitation in the present day to be an effect of modernisation, through increased gender equality. The present research, based on life histories of young, poor, urban co-habi…
Beyond the Second Demographic Transition: Cohabitation in Chile
Previous studies suggest that Latin America is entering into a Second Demographic Transition (SDT). This essay asks whether this theory can account for increasing cohabitation in Chile, contrasting this perspective with three alternative frameworks: gender revolution (GR), declining patriarchy (DP), and the pattern of disadvantage/dual marriage system (POD/DMS). We analyze available evidence from published works and from new research to explore t…
Changing Patterns of Kinship: Cohabitation, Patriarchy and Social Policy in Chile
Cohabitation is a distinctive feature of low-income groups in Latin America. In the past, it has been linked to colonial legacies including notions of familial honour, poverty, and a kinship system focused on blood ties. By contrast, some scholars consider rising levels of cohabitation in the present day to be an effect of modernisation, through increased gender equality. The present research, based on life histories of young, poor, urban co-habi…
Constraints that discourage participation in the labour market by female carers of older relatives in Santiago, Chile
Providing care for older people who have support needs is mainly a familial and female responsibility in Chile. Despite Chile's development level, the participation of females in the workforce lags behind (at around 50%), and 72% of female carers of an older relative are not in the labour force. This paper explores the reasons why in Latin America adult children remain out of the labour force while caring for an older parent or parent-in-law who …
Obviously there is a conflict between confidentiality and what you are required to do by law: Chilean university faculty and student perspectives on reporting unlawful abortions
Changing Patterns of Kinship: Cohabitation, Patriarchy and Social Policy in Chile
Cohabitation is a distinctive feature of low-income groups in Latin America. In the past, it has been linked to colonial legacies including notions of familial honour, poverty, and a kinship system focused on blood ties. By contrast, some scholars consider rising levels of cohabitation in the present day to be an effect of modernisation, through increased gender equality. The present research, based on life histories of young, poor, urban co-habi…
Beyond the Second Demographic Transition: Cohabitation in Chile
Previous studies suggest that Latin America is entering into a Second Demographic Transition (SDT). This essay asks whether this theory can account for increasing cohabitation in Chile, contrasting this perspective with three alternative frameworks: gender revolution (GR), declining patriarchy (DP), and the pattern of disadvantage/dual marriage system (POD/DMS). We analyze available evidence from published works and from new research to explore t…
El backstage de la sociología: Tras bambalinas con Wright Mills, Sennett y Bauman
Este artículo reflexiona en torno a cómo se hace sociología en la práctica, siguiendo las ideas de Wright Mills en La imaginación sociológica, de Sennett en El artesano y de Bauman en ¿Para qué sirve realmente un sociólogo? A esto se suman las experiencias personales de la autora realizando trabajo intelectual como mujer y académica de una universidad pública de provincia. Se plantea que la sociología es una artesanía y que en tanto tal remite a …
Motherhood, Social Policies and Women's Activism in Latin America
Chilean Medical and Midwifery Faculty's Views on Conscientious Objection for Abortion Services
CONTEXT: In 2017, Chile reformed its abortion law to allow the procedure under limited circumstances. Exploring the views of Chilean medical and midwifery faculty regarding abortion and the use of conscientious objection (CO) at the time of reform can inform how these topics are being taught to the country's future health care providers. METHODS: Between March and September 2017, 30 medical and midwifery school faculty from universities in Santia…
Constraints that discourage participation in the labour market by female carers of older relatives in Santiago, Chile
Providing care for older people who have support needs is mainly a familial and female responsibility in Chile. Despite Chile's development level, the participation of females in the workforce lags behind (at around 50%), and 72% of female carers of an older relative are not in the labour force. This paper explores the reasons why in Latin America adult children remain out of the labour force while caring for an older parent or parent-in-law who …
Obviously there is a conflict between confidentiality and what you are required to do by law: Chilean university faculty and student perspectives on reporting unlawful abortions
Protecting, Empowering, or Penalizing Motherhood? The Contradictory Treatment of Women in Chilean Social Policies
This article contributes to the discussion of gendered social policy in Latin America. Despite considerable attention to the Chilean case, few studies have provided a comparative analysis of how the articulation of gender through motherhood differs across social sectors. We contrast the case of the health sector with the examples of housing and labor market policies to demonstrate that the framing of motherhood in Chilean social policies is not u…
Trayectorias de convivencia no matrimonial: El rol de los hijos/as
Esta investigación estudia el rol que cumplen los/as hijos/as, en común y de relaciones previas, en las trayectorias de unión en parejas convivientes de distinto sexo en Chile. Utilizamos una metodología mixta, con base en análisis de sobrevivencia (cuantitativa) e historias de vida (cualitativa). Nuestros resultados cuantitativos indican que las parejas que conviven con hijos/as en común tienen un mayor riesgo de casarse y un menor riesgo de sep…
It would be a problem for the family’: Queerness, family honour and familism in Chile
Family honour, protecting and upholding the family name, is central to familism. Yet, it has been somewhat neglected by scholarship on Latin American and Latino families. Familism involves prioritising the family over the individual. Likewise, the family of origin holds particular significance, offering material, social and emotional support, and shaping one's identity, honour and sense of belonging. Heteronormativity and patriarchy portray queer…
Resignifying Equal and Specialized Distributions of Housework and Childcare within Cohabiting Same-Gender Couples in Chile
Same-gender couples typically appear as examples of complete egalitarianism. However, previous studies indicate that same-gender couples may also involve role specialization. We conducted 24 life history interviews with people in a same-gender relationship, cohabiting for at least one year in Chile, with the aim to explore distributions of housework and childcare and the ways interviewees justify their arrangements. Results show various resignifi…
“ I Can Do the Same as You ”. Women's Motivations for Entering and Remaining in Male‐Dominated Occupations in Chile
Despite the growing participation of women in the labor market, significant gender‐based occupational segregation persists, particularly in highly male‐dominated occupations. Existing research has largely explained women's entry into these occupations in terms of economic motivation, while paying less attention to how motivations for both entry and permanence are shaped by the intersection of class, family arrangements, and life trajectories, esp…
‘Beyond the fence it is something else’: The (in)visibility of lesbian, gay, and bi/pansexual couples within Chilean gated communities
As evidenced by feminist geographies, decisions to make lesbian, gay and bi/pansexual relationships visible are complex, as they involve different space representations and identity practices performed in different contexts. The purpose of this article is to examine the experiences of such couples, in this case, living in gated communities or condominiums in Santiago, Chile. By doing so, it explores whether—and how—the experiences of individuals …
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (5 works) · Latin Americans (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (4 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (4 works) · Law (4 works)