Feminist Social Theory and Gender Studies contributions to Venezuelan sociology

I will approach this article about the last 25 years in Venezuelan sociology from three perspectives; the first one is a review of sociology as an academic career and a profession, with some data that has remained unnoticed (feminization, occupational destiny), the contents in sociology schools-curriculum and syllabus, areas of knowledge, undergraduate thesis topics, sociology congresses- that enable us to characterize these curricula; the second one is the absences in these syllabi which represent women's invisibility-female sociologists who have been excluded from the mandatory bibliography and from the discipline's history- and the absence of Women's and Gender Studies and of Feminism; and the third one: a proposal of formally incorporating Critical Feminist Social Theory and Gender Studies to any curriculum or syllabus as requirement for studying sociology, in order to start overcoming the effects of institutional sexism in sociology schools. This article is mostly documentary, but it is also the result of my experience as a female sociologist and militant of Venezuelan socialist feminism.