Inequalities and the Paradigm of Excellence in Academia
Herausgeber/in:
Jenkins, Fiona; Hoenig, Barbara; Weber, Susanne M.; Wolfram, Andrea
Quelle: London: Routledge (Routledge research in gender and society, 99), 2022.
Inhalt: This volume examines the criteria of excellence producing inequalities of gender in the daily working environment and evaluation of academics.
Policy makers have increasingly placed emphasis on gender equality as part of a strategy for achieving research excellence, and efforts to reduce gender bias have become mainstream. This book suggests that this goal has remained elusive in practice due to continuing under-representation of women across many academic and scientific fields. Questioning the old structures of male-dominance still prevalent in national research policy, the book explores the effects of institutional values and practices on the careers of academics, particularly the academic identities of women and their career developments.
It focuses on case-studies drawn from Europe while also highlighting the rise of new forms of public management and a neo-liberal framing of the value of academic work, that have a much broader global reach. Using participatory research, the book analyses contemporary forms of ‘gendered excellence’ in an intersectional and international perspective. It will be of interest to junior/senior researchers, teachers and scholars in Sociology, Education, Gender Studies, History, Political Science and Science and Technology Studies.
Schlagwörter:academia; Care; excellence; Exzellenz; gender bias; inequality; Peer Review; woman in academia
CEWS Kategorie:Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Vielfältige Verantwortungen : Anforderungen an diskriminierungssensible Organisationen am Beispiel der Hochschule
Autor/in:
Steinweg, Nina
Quelle: Supervision: Mensch, Arbeit, Organisation, 40 (2022) 1, S 19–26
Inhalt: Dieser Beitrag widmet sich den Herausforderungen von Hochschulen als diskriminierungssensiblen Organisationen im Spannungsfeld von New Public Management, Wettbewerb um die »besten Köpfe«, Unterfinanzierung und der Verantwortung für ein gerechtes und diskriminierungsfreies Bildungssystem. Er wirft einen Blick auf die Strukturen von Diversity Management und Antidiskriminierungspolitik im Lichte der rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen.
Rethinking Gender Centres in Nigerian Universities
Autor/in:
Igiebor, Oluwakemi Temitope
Quelle: jgcs (Journal of Gender, Culture and Society), 2 (2022) 2, S 11–19
Inhalt: For the past three decades, discussions centred on gender equity have become buzzwords in academic institutions in Nigeria, which has led to an increasing effort to establish gender centres and adopt equity policies. Despite the awareness and presence of gender centres in Nigerian universities, institutionalising gender equity has been challenging. There is a struggle to explain how policy absence and gender centre mergers may constrain positive institutional gender change. This article explores why academic institutions have established gender centres but have not created gender policies. Taking into account the gender stakeholder’s perspectives in two purposively selected universities in Nigeria, this study utilises an integrated feminist approach to investigate why university gender centres are unable to advance gender equity within the institutions. Concepts like institutional resistance and layering offered tools that helped capture the dynamics of institutional change and stasis in the case studies. Findings showed that the existence of gender centres without formalised policies is a window-dressing approach that limits the potential for gender equity within the universities. It also revealed how the redirection of gender centres through mergers with other centres is ‘gendered’. Evidence showed that the prospect for institutional gender change is often tempered by merging incompatible and non-complementary centres. This study, thus, adds to the scholarly literature on institutional resistance, providing valuable insights into the subtle manifestations of resistance towards gender equity institutionalisation in academia.
Bundesbericht Forschung und Innovation 2022 : Forschungs- und innovationspolitische Ziele und Maßnahmen
Autor/in:
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Quelle: Berlin, 2022.
Inhalt: Der Bundesbericht Forschung und Innovation (BuFI) bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Aktivitäten des Bundes und der Länder zu Forschung und Innovation. Der Bericht stellt die Elemente des deutschen Forschungs- und Innovationssystems vor.
Auf S. 215-217 finden sich Informationen zum Aspekt "Chancengerechtigkeit in Forschung und Bildung".
Forschungsorientierte Gleichstellungs- und Diversitätsstandards der DFG
Autor/in:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Quelle: Bonn, 2022.
Inhalt: Die DFG-Mitgliederversammlung 2022 beschloss zudem den Ausbau des Aspektes Diversität im Text der „Forschungsorientierten Gleichstellungsstandards“, um die Verwirklichung der chancengleichen Teilhabe aller Menschen in Wissenschaft und Forschung – auch intersektional – voranzutreiben. Als Qualitätsmerkmal dient die Förderung von Diversität der Verbesserungen der Voraussetzung für qualitativ hochwertige Wissenschaft. In diesem Zuge wurde auch der Titel auf „Forschungsorientierte Gleichstellungs- und Diversitätsstandards“ angepasst.
Quelle: Gend Work Organ (Gender, Work and Organization), (2022)
Inhalt: This paper examines the establishment of a feminist academic organization, GENMAC (Gender, Markets, and Consumers; genmac.co), serving gender scholars in business schools and related fields. In so doing, it builds on the emerging literature of feminist academic organizations, as situated within feminist organizational studies (FOS). Through a feminist case study and by assessing the reflections of GENMAC's board members, we tell the story of the emergence of GENMAC and detail the tensions the organization encountered as it formally established itself as a feminist organization within the confines of a business school setting, a patriarchal system, and a neoliberal university paradigm. We build on the FOS literature by considering how our organization counters cultures of heightened individualism and builds collective action to challenge sexism through the nexus of research, support, and advocacy pillars of our organization. We demonstrate how, through these actions, our organization challenges hierarchies of knowledge, prioritizes the care and support needed for the day-to-day survival of gender scholars in business schools, and spotlights and challenges structural inequalities and injustices in the academy.
Datenreport: Geschlechtergleichstellung in Entscheidungsgremien von Hochschulen (2020 / 2021)
Autor/in:
Löther, Andrea
Quelle: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften; Köln, 2022.
Inhalt: Die Beteiligung von Frauen an Entscheidungsprozessen und damit an (fach-)politischer Macht ist ein wesentliches Element von Geschlechtergerechtigkeit. Wichtige Grundlage für eine stärkere Repräsentation von Frauen in Leitungs- und Entscheidungsgremien und daraus gleichstellungspolitische Impulse und Maßnahmen zu entwickeln, sind eine gute Datengrundlage und ein regelmäßiges Monitoring. Der Datenreport stellt Daten zur Hochschulleitung, Senaten, Hochschulräten und Fakultätsleitungen zusammen. Aufbereitet werden Daten des Statistischen Bundesamt sowie eigene Erhebungen. Bundesweite Daten zur Besetzung von Senaten und zur Leitung von Fakultäten erhob das CEWS erstmalig für 2018. Diese Erhebung wurde für 2021 wiederholt und wird zukünftig alle drei Jahre aktualisiert. Differenziert nach Hochschultyp, Trägerschaft und Bundesland sowie im Zeitverlauf wird die Teilhabe von Frauen an den Hochschulgremien ausgewertet. Ziel des Berichts ist das Datenmonitoring.
Women’s refusal of racial patriarchy in South African academia
Autor/in:
Raymond, Zaakira; Canham, Hugo
Quelle: Gender and Education, (2022) , S 1–18
Inhalt: This paper explores the career experiences of women academics at three South African universities. To understand the experiences of women academics, we conducted an intersectional interrogation of the politics and practices of belonging in departmental cultures. The sample consisted of thirty women academics whose interviews were analysed through a discursive thematic frame. We found that while all participants experienced gender-based discrimination which hinders academic progression, the barriers experienced by black women academics are compounded by the intersections of race, gender, and motherhood. Patriarchal and racist institutional, disciplinary and departmental cultures served as further challenges to belonging. On the other hand, through counter storytelling and refusal, women created alternative spaces of sociality where suffering co-exists with pleasure, refusal and survival. Ultimately, the paper suggests refusal as a generative theoretical lens to surface the complexity of women academics.
Die Entwicklung der Studienabbruchquoten in Deutschland
Autor/in:
Heublein, Ulrich; Hutzsch, Christopher; Schmelzer, Robert
Quelle: Deutsches Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung (DZHW), 2022.
Inhalt: Die Studienabbruchquote unter den deutschen Studierenden hat sich zu Beginn der Coronazeit nicht wesentlich erhöht: Vor allem im Bachelorstudium ähneln die auf Basis des Absolventenjahrgangs 2020 berechneten Studienabbruchquoten den Werten der letzten Berechnungen von 2020
“The ethos expected from a management professor forces us to act straight”: Heterosexist harassment against gay professors in Brazil
Autor/in:
Freitas Oleto, Alice de; Palhares, José Vitor
Quelle: Gend Work Organ (Gender, Work and Organization), (2022)
Inhalt: This study aims to analyze how gay Brazilian professors experience heterosexist harassment and the implications of this type of violence for the interpersonal relationships of these professors and for the teaching-learning process in the academic environment. To this end, we conducted an exploratory study with a qualitative approach. The data were collected through an online survey using the Google Forms platform based on cases reported by 13 gay Brazilian professors working in a technological or higher education institution at the time of the harassment. Our data suggest that most respondents suffered heterosexist harassment in the workplace with violence being more explicit when the professor is more effeminate. Furthermore, we found that the naturalization of games considered harmless and homophobic jokes in the workplace can compromise the fight against heterosexist harassment in organizations. As a result, respondents report behavioral and workplace changes to fit into social norms and to be socially accepted, physical and psychological problems, professional and interpersonal relationships, adversely affecting educational experiences.