Inhalt: Das Kaskadenmodell, gerade in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern eingeführt, soll Chancengleichheit fördern. Doch streng genommen ist es eine Benachteilung für Frauen, meinen unsere Gastautoren.
What professors do in peer review : Interrogating assessment practices in the recruitment of professors in Sweden
Autor/in:
Mählck, Paula; Kusterer, Hanna Li; Montgomery, Henry
Quelle: Gender Work Organ (Gender, Work & Organization), 54 (2020) 2, 9 S
Inhalt: Sweden is known for its political will to gender equality. Sweden is also a country with a strong tradition of transparency in university recruitments. In this article, the assessment practices in the appointment of full professors in one Swedish university are investigated from an intersectional and postcolonial perspective on gender and place/space. Using a multimethod approach to investigate written evaluations of applicants, recruitment group meeting minutes and interviews with reviewers, the results show that there is great variation in how evaluation criteria are applied and filled with meaning. Moreover, in more than half of the appointment decisions the reviewers disagreed. The interview results show a structural bias operating towards researchers applying from non‐Western university contexts. At an aggregated level, national applicants have 3.88 times greater chance to be proposed for a position and national women applicants are the most likely to be proposed for the position.
Schlagwörter:Berufungsverfahren; Gender; intersectionality; intersektionale Perspektive; Intersektionalität; Peer-Review; Schweden; Sweden
CEWS Kategorie:Diversity, Europa und Internationales, Geschlechterverhältnis, Hochschulen, Berufungsverfahren
Foreign women in academia : Double‐strangers between productivity, marginalization and resistance
Autor/in:
Strauβ, Anke; Boncori, Ilaria
Quelle: Gender Work Organ (Gender, Work & Organization), 17 (2020) 2, 867 S
Inhalt: This article examines the professional experience of foreign women academics working across geographic boundaries in today's neoliberal academia characterized by liquidity. Framed within an intersectional perspective, we use the concept of the ‘double‐stranger' to examine data stemming from 20 in‐depth semi‐structured interviews conducted with scholars at different stages of their career in the social sciences. This article advances understandings of academic careers theoretically by identifying a temporal and hierarchical dynamic in the intersection of two categories of difference (gender and foreignness) that constitute a position of simultaneous belonging and non‐belonging for foreign women academics; and empirically through a qualitative investigation that explores three areas in which academic professional experiences are mobilized for double‐strangers: (i) transnational career moves; (ii) productivity and performance in today's neoliberal academia; and (iii) self‐induced estrangement as a form of resistance.
Caring during COVID‐19 : A gendered analysis of Australian university responses to managing remote working and caring responsibilities
Autor/in:
Nash, Meredith; Churchill, Brendan
Quelle: Gender, Work & Organization, 27 (2020) 5, S 833–846
Inhalt: OVID‐19 is dramatically reconfiguring paid work and care. Emerging evidence in the global media suggests that academic women with caring responsibilities are being proportionately impacted. This article fills a key knowledge gap by examining how Australian universities are supporting academics to manage remote work and caring during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We conducted a desktop analysis of public information about remote working and care from 41 Australian universities and compared them to the world’s top 10 ranked universities. Findings suggest that during the pandemic, the Australian higher education sector positions decisions about caring leave and participation in the paid labour force as ‘private’ matters in which employees (mainly women) design their own ‘solutions’ when compared with international institutional counterparts. We argue that COVID‐19 provides another context in which universities have evaded their responsibility to ensure women’s full participation in the labour force.
Dirty Body Politics: Habitus, Gendered Embodiment, and the Resistance to Women's Agency in Transforming South African Higher Education
Autor/in:
Idahosa, Grace Ese‐osa
Quelle: Gend Work Organ (Gender, Work and Organization), 27 (2020) 6, S 988–1003
Inhalt: In discussing the difficulty with transformation, research notes that women and Blacks are excluded and marginalised by the cultures and practices within universities in South Africa. While the literature highlights the invisibility of these minorities in universities, with their bodies only becoming visible as tokens, or when representing minority issues, it is silent on how this plays out in interchanges in the transformation process, the embodiment of gender, and the resistance to women's agency within the field of higher education transformation. Adopting a hermeneutic phenomenological lens and Bourdieu's concept of field and habitus, this study examines ten academics' experiences of having agency to effect transformation. In particular, it explores women's narratives of body‐centered attacks in expressions of resistance to their transformation strategies, revealing the normalisation of the White, male body. This normalisation obscures the gendered processes of transformation and the bodily resistance to women's agency, revealed in tugging, pulling, shutting doors and having metaphorical knives pulled from their backs. The study argues that this not only prevents women from exercising their agency, but also ensures the reproduction of oppressive relations within the university and should be directly addressed in the struggle for transformation.
Schlagwörter:body; Bourdieu; Feldtheorie; Gender; Gewalt; Habitus; higher education; Hochschule; Körper; minority; Organisationswandel; people of color; racism; Rassismus; resistance; sexism; Sexismus; South Africa; Südafrika; Transformation; violence; Widerstand
CEWS Kategorie:Diversity, Europa und Internationales, Hochschulen, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dilemmas in Re‑branding a University—“Maybe People Just Don’t Like Change”: Linking Meaningfulness and Mutuality into the Reconciliation
Autor/in:
Kuoppakangas, Päivikki; Suomi, Kati; Clark, Paul; et al.
Quelle: Corporate reputation Review, (2020) 23, S 92–105
Inhalt: This study examines the implementation of a re-branding campaign in a public Canadian university. Data collection com-
prised 19 qualitative semi-structured interviews with key internal university stakeholders (Dean and Mid-level Administra-
tors). The data revealed three core dilemma pairs: (1) new brand vs. previous brand; (2) voice at the organisational level vs.
voice at the departmental level; and (3) voluntary down-up voicing vs. up-down voicing. Results suggest that successfully
implementing the new brand should not exclusively rely upon internal marketing communication; instead, internal brand-
ing through handling ambiguities and addressing emerging dilemmas by enhancing engagement, building mutuality and
unlocking the meaning in the re-branding can help improve success. This study reveals that implementing a re-branding
campaign in higher education involves embracing the world of dilemmas by involving and empowering employees in dilemma
reconciliation. The reconciliation of detected brand-related dilemmas with and by employees can be achieved by involv-
ing employees in the process of re-branding from the beginning. Indeed, this paper suggests the preparedness to detect and
address dilemmas is central to successful re-branding. Our results indicate that traditional change management approaches
produce unreconciled dilemmas that hinder the implementation of the new brand. We conclude that efforts to build employee
engagement in re-branding do not build employee supportiveness towards the new brand unless core dilemmas are reconciled.
Schlagwörter:Außenwirkung; Change Management; Image; institutioneller Wandel; Öffentlichkeitsarbeit; theory of change
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaftspolitik, Hochschulen
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Research literature on women of color in undergraduate engineering education : A systematic thematic synthesis
Autor/in:
Ong, Maria; Jaumot‐Pascual, Nuria; Ko, Lily T.
Quelle: J. Eng. Educ. (Journal of Engineering Education), 109 (2020) 3, S 581–615
Inhalt: Background: To address social disparities and generate an innovative workforce, engineering higher education should provide learning environments that benefit students from all backgrounds. However, because engineering programs are not enrolling or retaining women of color at demographic parity, a better understanding of these students’ experiences is needed to develop effective interventions.
Purpose: This study analyzes research on women of color in undergraduate engineering education to determine what influences their experiences, participation, and advancement. We identify challenges to and strategies for persistence and present recommendations for engineering institutions to create interventions that support women of color and mitigate institutional inequities.
Scope/Method: Using the snowballing method, we identified 65 empirical studies published between 1999 and 2015 that met the criteria for this review. These studies represented qualitative, mixed-methods, and quantitative methodologies from various fields. We conducted a systematic thematic synthesis, informed by frames of intersectionality, critical race theory, and community cultural wealth.
Conclusions: Women of color use navigational strategies to address the social pain of race and gender inequity in engineering education. Institutions should take responsibility for generating a sense of belonging for women of color and provide social and structural supports that increase self-efficacy, address social pain, and improve retention.
Schlagwörter:Ingenieurwissenschaft; Intersektionalität; literature review; people of color; Studium; undergraduate; women of color
CEWS Kategorie:Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Hochschulen, Studium und Studierende, Geschlechterverhältnis
Quelle: Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung, 42 (2020) 4, S 50–69
Inhalt: Berufungskommissionen sind wichtige Arenen für die Durchsetzung der Interessen verschiedener Akteure. Sie werden auch in der Gleichstellungspolitik als zentrales Handlungsfeld betrachtet. Im Zentrum des Beitrags steht die Frage, welche Gleich-
stellungsmaßnahmen auf professoraler Ebene, insbesondere im Handlungsfeld Berufungskommissionen, bekannt sind und wie sie angesichts wachsender Ansprüche an exzellente Wissenschaft wahrgenommen und umgesetzt werden. Das Konzept des Geschlechterwissens nach Dölling/Wetterer diente als zentrale theoretische Perspektive. Die leitfadengestützten Interviews wurden rekonstruktiv ausgewertet. Es zeigte sich, dass das Gleichstellungswissen der Interviewten in Bezug auf den Kosmos Hochschule umfangreich ist, ihr Geschlechterwissen jedoch überwiegend alltagsweltlich. Ein zentrales Ergebnis ist, dass die Imperative Gleichstellung und Bestenauswahl in Berufungskommissionen als widersprüchliche Zielvorgaben wahrgenommen werden.
Schlagwörter:Berufungskommission; Genderkompetenz; Geschlechterwissen; Gleichstellungsmaßnahmen; Professor; Professorin
Understanding Intersecting Gender Inequities in Academic Scienfitic Research Career Progression in sub-Saharan Africa
Autor/in:
Liani, Millicent L.; Nyamongo, Isaac K.; Tolhurst, Rachel
Quelle: GST (International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology), 12 (2020) 2, S 262–288
Inhalt: The slow progression and under-representation of women in senior scientific career positions is a well-known and persistent global problem, especially among university-based academics, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). To inform action for change, we need to go beyond numerical evidence of inequalities to understanding the underlying social, cultural and institutional drivers and processes producing gender inequities in science careers. This requires a theoretically rigorous gender analysis framework that is relevant to SSA and sufficiently accounts for variations among both women and men. Since no such framework is available, we conducted a literature review of emerging theories and empirical evidence on the dimensions of and reasons for the prevailing gender inequities in higher education institutions in SSA. Based on this, we propose an integrated conceptual framework, identify available empirical findings to support it and develop a preliminary explanation of observed inequities. Our findings demonstrate that women’s (lack of) progression in academic/scientific research careers is shaped by intersections between gender roles and social power relations of gender within the family, wider society and academic institutions themselves. We argue that this integrated model provides implications for theory, practice at institutional and policy level, and future research.
Schlagwörter:academic career; Afrika; akademische Karriere; gender analysis; gender inequality; Geschlechterungleichheit; higher education institution; Hochschule; intersectionality; Intersektionalität; literature review; sub-Sahran Africa
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Hochschulen, Geschlechterverhältnis
Professorinnen im Spannungsverhältnis von Exzellenz und Chancengleichheit : Empirische Befunde aus einer qualitativen Interview-Studie
Autor/in:
Paulitz, Tanja; Braukmann, Stephanie
Quelle: Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung, 42 (2020) 4, S 30–48
Inhalt: Der Beitrag fragt ausgehend vom jüngeren hochschulpolitischen Wandel, im Zuge dessen Chancengleichheit zu einem Bestandteil von Exzellenz wurde, nach der Arbeitssituation von Professorinnen an deutschen Universitäten. Damit wird jene Statusgruppe ins Zentrum der Betrachtung gerückt, die sich im System etabliert hat und gemeinhin dafürsteht, dass Chancengleichheit erreicht ist. Auf Basis einer laufenden qualitativen empirischen Untersuchung werden erste Befunde vorgelegt, wie dieses Verhältnis von Exzellenz und Chancengleichheit von Professorinnen erfahren wird, welche Zugänge es eröffnet, auf welche Barrieren die Professorinnen stoßen und welche Ambivalenzen sich hinsichtlich ihrer Position rekonstruieren lassen. Dabei wird die These entwickelt, dass sich die Partizipationschancen von Professorinnen in den Wettkämpfen um Exzellenz in geschlechtlich strukturierten Spielen um Anerkennung erweisen müssen.
Schlagwörter:Chancengleichheit; Drittmittel; Exzellenz; Forschungsförderung; Interview; Partizipation; Professorin
CEWS Kategorie:Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis