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"This paper is the result of a case study conducted from December 2002 to January
2003 at the University of Innsbruck, Austria to assess the attractiveness of an academic
career under the new employment law. Focus group interviews with up and coming academics
were run in order to highlight the situation and career opportunities of women and
men on the lowest step of the academic career ladder. The design of the study involved
four groups differentiated according to gender and occupational status (old vs. new
employment law). The method turned out to be a good tool in order to explore various
facets of the situation of the interviewees. Furthermore it revealed their insecurity
concerning their own status and professional future caused by the policy change. However
the results suggest that the new employment law indeed makes an academic career less
attractive for it is less predictable and the positions offered are precarious, it
is likely that it facilitated the finishing of one's dissertation. Generally, the
interviews suggest that the situation and career perspectives of the junior faculty
('Mittelbau') are rather determined by discipline and occupational status than by
gender. Thus despite providing interesting insights into the situation and attitudes
of the 'old' and the 'new' junior faculty the outcomes of the study do not bring further
light to the explanation of the persistent female underrepresentation in academia."
(author's abstract)|