Every Woman Has a Story to Tell : Experiential Reflections on Leadership in Higher Education
Autor/in:
Selzer, Robin Arnsperger; Robles, Richard
Quelle: Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 12 (2019) 1, S 106–124
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Inhalt: This study explores and shares key professional development advice related to career paths, challenges faced, and lessons learned from senior women leaders at a public, urban, research university. Interviews were conducted as part the NASPA Alice Manicur Symposium, a national student affairs leadership development program for women. Findings identified two themes at the personal and institutional levels. Sub-themes included strategies for career advancement in higher education, such as accepting opportunities, being visible, understanding the business of higher education, and obtaining a terminal degree. Aspiring women should be ready to navigate institutional challenges, often outside of their control, such as bureaucracy and politics, budgetary constraints, forces impacting student affairs, and institutional change. Participants shared perspectives on addressing institutional change including assessing needs and affect, exploring perceptions of change, gaining buy-in, and leveraging the change. Because emerging women leaders in higher education are often overwhelmed and confused in the realm of career assessment, findings from this study address the problem. The needle can move for women in higher education leadership positions if women identify themselves as aspiring leaders, create time for career assessment reflection, and take action to implement strategies for advancement endorsed by successful senior women.
Schlagwörter:Change Management; Frauen in der Wissenschaft; Frauen in Führungspositionen; higher education; Karrierebarriere; Management; Organisationskultur; structural barriers
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Karrierehindernis Geschlecht? : Zum Verbleib von Frauen in der Hochschulmedizin
Autor/in:
Hendrix, Ulla; Mauer, Heike; Niegel, Jennifer
Quelle: GENDER (GENDER – Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft), 11 (2019) 1-2019, S 47–62
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Inhalt: Dieser Beitrag untersucht, warum Frauen nur selten Professorinnen in der Hochschulmedizin werden, obwohl Medizinstudentinnen mittlerweile deutlich in der Mehrheit sind. Anhand einer Online-Befragung von Assistenzärzt_innen sowie von Interviews mit Akteur_innen in Schlüsselpositionen der Universitätskliniken und medizinischen Fakultäten in NRW werden zwei zentrale Erklärungsansätze aus dem Feld herausgearbeitet: die Annahme, dass die mangelnde Vereinbarkeit von Hochschulmedizin und Familie für den geringen Frauenanteil auf den Professuren verantwortlich ist (1), sowie die Vermutung, dass Frauen wissenschaftliche Karriereambitionen durch falsche Strategien nicht realisieren können (2). Beide Erklärungsansätze operieren jedoch mit essentialistischen Geschlechterbildern, die für die Aufrechterhaltung ungleicher Geschlechterverhältnisse in der Hochschulmedizin zentral sind.
Schlagwörter:Geschlechterdiskriminierung; Hochschule; Interview; Medizin; Motivation; Online-Befragung; Professorin; Universität; Vereinbarkeit; Wissenschaftskarriere
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Grant Allocation Disparities from a Gender Perspective : Literature Review - Synthesis Report GRANteD Project D.1.1.
Autor/in:
Crus Castro, Laura; Sanz-Menéndez, Luis
Quelle: CSIC Institute of Public Goods and Policies; Madrid, 2019.
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Inhalt: The purpose of this review is to provide the GRANteD project with robust analytical approaches and methodological insights that take into account the state of the art, but it also acknowledges and aims to overcome the main shortcomings and point out the gaps of the existing literature; it is also our contention that knowledge could be used to improve and refine, and also to strengthen, gender equality policies and the management of diversity in teams and research institutions. The substantive focus of the literature review refers to the central event of the “allocation of grants by means of peer review evaluation, observed as a process and an outcome”. We also consider “the impact of grants in career advancement in the context of hiring and promotion decisions”. However we can learn significantly from other areas in which gender research have made significant contributions, like occupation segregation, discrimination, stereotypes, etc.
Schlagwörter:bias; Forschungsförderung; gender bias; gender equality; Geschlechterdiskriminierung; Geschlechterungleichheit; Karriereentwicklung; Kausalität; literature review; Peer Review; Rekrutierung
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
Women Professors : Who Makes It and How?
Autor/in:
Diezmann, Carmel; Grieshaber, Susan
Quelle: Singapur: Springer, 2019.
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Inhalt: This book explores the career paths of Australian women who have succeeded in achieving professorships and beyond, where for the most part, such positions are predominately occupied by males. It also explores the gendered culture that exists across faculties and universities as reported by participants in a survey questionnaire of 525 new professors (female and male), and nearly 30 interviews of women in Australian higher education, either in small focus groups or individually. Futher, it identifies catalysts for and inhibitors of success for women and looks in depth at “the boys’ club” and how it impacts women’s progression. The book also highlights how critical life decisions - doctoral study, work and family - shape the careers of academic women. It identifies five distinct career profiles for women academics and the pressure points and effective support for each profile. Thus, this book can assist women academics who are making life decisions and those supporting their career progression. It also provides insights into why affirmative action initiatives to improve the proportion of women in the professoriate have had minimal impact despite considerable investment over the past 30 years
Schlagwörter:affirmative action; Australia; Fördermaßnahme; Frauen in der Wissenschaft; gläserne Decke; glass ceiling; Professorin; Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf; women academics
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Europa und Internationales, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Monographie
A PhD In motion: Advancing a critical academic mobilities approach (CAMA) to researching short-term mobility schemes for doctoral students
Autor/in:
Henderson, Emily F.
Quelle: Teaching in Higher Education, 24 (2019) 5, S 678–693
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Inhalt: Short-term mobility has been neglected in the higher education mobilities literature, which tends to focus on longer stays such as study abroad or entire degrees. Short-term doctoral mobility schemes are relatively low-cost, potentially high-value investments in the development of early career researchers. Doctoral mobilities research – and the field of academic mobilities research more broadly – is characterised by a positivist, often atheoretical orientation; this article responds to this by introducing a critical academic mobilities approach (CAMA). This approach is rooted in the ‘mobilities paradigm’, and involves (i) questioning the status of mobility as a universal good; (ii) exploring the subjectivity of mobile subjects as dynamic and shifting, but also structurally determined; (iii) a commitment to researching mobility processes as well as investments and outcomes. The article explores ‘autoethno-case studies’ of two doctoral mobility schemes funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC): Overseas Institutional Visits (OIV) and the PhD Partnering Scheme (PPS).
Schlagwörter:doctoral student; Förderprogramm; Forschungsförderung; Großbritannien; international academic mobility; internationale akademische Mobilität; UK
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Feminism and intersectionality in academia : Women's narratives and experiences in higher education
Herausgeber/in:
Shelton, Stephanie Anne; Flynn, Jill Ewing; Grosland, Tanetha Jamay
Quelle: Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 1 online resource
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Inhalt: This edited volume explores the diversities and complexities of women’s experiences in higher education. Its emphasis on personal narratives provides a forum for topics not typically found in in print, such as mental illness, marital difficulties, and gender identity. The intersectional narratives afford typically disenfranchised women opportunities to share experiences in ways that de-center standard academic writing, while simultaneously making these stories accessible to a range of readers, both inside and outside higher education.
Schlagwörter:Academia; Feminismus; Frauen in der Wissenschaft; Intersectionality; Women in higher education
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Hochschulen
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
‘You must aim high’ - ‘No, I never felt like a woman’: women and men making sense of non-standard trajectories into higher education
Autor/in:
González Ramos, Ana M.; Räthzel, Nora
Quelle: International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 10 (2018) 1, 17 S
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Inhalt: It is no secret that the ‘glass ceiling’ preventing women advancing to leadership positions exists in academia as well. Spain is no exception. Gender relations are usually investigated independently of other power relations like class and ethnicity. In our sample (80 men and women in different academic institutions across Spain) we found that not only women but also men from working class backgrounds have difficulties making successful academic careers. Therefore, we use an intersectional approach to investigate the relationship between gender and class. Comparing two life-histories, we explore what strategies individuals employ to overcome the barriers with which they are confronted. We present the stories of a woman with a middle class but non-academic background and of a man with a working-class background. Their strategies can be understood as the result of specific individual trajectories under specific societal conditions, but they also illustrate the barriers and possibilities men and women with non-standard backgrounds encounter in academia. Analysing successful strategies as well as their limitations, we aim to provide perspectives that might contribute to changing the culture of hegemonic masculinities in academia.
Schlagwörter:career; Gender; Geschlecht; Intersektionalität; Karriereplanung; Lebenswege; life-history; Männlichkeit; Masculinities; SCIENCE; social class; soziale Klasse; Wissenschaft
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Diversity, Europa und Internationales, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Geschlechterverhältnis, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Scientists' early grant success fuels further funding
Autor/in:
Else, Holly
Quelle: Nature, 556 (2018) 7702, S 416–417
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Inhalt: Über ein interessantes Studienergebnis berichtet Nature: Untersucht wurde, wie sich die Zu- bzw. Absage eines Drittmittelprojekts in der frühen Postdoc-Phase auf weitere Bewerbungen auswirkt. Das Ergebnis: Wer Glück hatte, ein erstes großes Projekt bewilligt zu bekommen, strich in den darauffolgenden acht Jahren mehr als doppelt so viele Forschungsgelder ein. Auch die Wahrscheinlichkeit, eine Professur zu erhalten, ist deutlich höher – interessanterweise steigt aber nicht die Anzahl oder der Impact der Publikationen selbst. Das heißt: Wissenschaftler, die über die Vergabe von Geldern für bestimmte Projekte entscheiden, haben eine Art Grant-Bias, der ihre positive Wahrnehmung von erfolgreichen Geldeinwerbern verstärkt. „Glück“ ist bei all dem übrigens ein wichtiges Stichwort. Nature zitiert den Soziologen Thijs Bol von der Universität Amsterdam: „‚There is a group of very young talented scholars who have bad luck,‘ says Bol. ‚They do not get the same resources to bring their ideas to life.‘“ (Zeit Chancen Brief)
Schlagwörter:Drittmittel; Erfolg; Forschungsförderung; Karriereentwicklung; Niederlande; Peer Review; Post-doc; Publikation; wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
The Matthew effect in science funding
Autor/in:
Bol, Thijs; Vaan, Mathijs de; van de Rijt, Arnout
Quelle: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, (2018)
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Inhalt: A classic thesis is that scientific achievement exhibits a "Matthew effect": Scientists who have previously been successful are more likely to succeed again, producing increasing distinction. We investigate to what extent the Matthew effect drives the allocation of research funds. To this end, we assembled a dataset containing all review scores and funding decisions of grant proposals submitted by recent PhDs in a €2 billion granting program. Analyses of review scores reveal that early funding success introduces a growing rift, with winners just above the funding threshold accumulating more than twice as much research funding (€180,000) during the following eight years as nonwinners just below it. We find no evidence that winners' improved funding chances in subsequent competitions are due to achievements enabled by the preceding grant, which suggests that early funding itself is an asset for acquiring later funding. Surprisingly, however, the emergent funding gap is partly created by applicants, who, after failing to win one grant, apply for another grant less often.
Schlagwörter:Drittmittel; Forschungsförderung; Matthäus-Effekt; Wissenschaftssoziologie
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Dual Career im Dilemma? : Wege zu einer aktiven Förderung
Autor/in:
Melzer, Kerstin
Quelle: Forschung & Lehre, 7 (2018)
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Inhalt: Immer wieder ist zu hören, dass Universitäten den Partnerinnen und Partnern von Forschenden Stellen anbieten, um die Berufung erfolgreich abschließen zu können. Wie sieht die Realität für akademische Dual Career Paare aus?
Schlagwörter:Berufung; Beschäftigungsbedingungen; Dual Career Paare; Förderungsmaßnahmen
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Hochschulen
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz