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.
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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
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
“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)
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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.
Schlagwörter:academic environment; Brasilien; Brazil; harassment; Homophobie; homosexual; Professor*in; sexist attitude; social norm; survey; violence
CEWS Kategorie:Diversity, Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Chancengleichheit in Wissenschaft und Forschung : 26. Fortschreibung des Datenmaterials (2020/2021) zu Frauen in Hochschulen und außerhochschulischen Forschungseinrichtungen
Autor/in:
Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz (GWK)
Quelle: Bonn (Materialien der GWK, 65), 2022.
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Schlagwörter:Berufung; Frauenanteil; Führungsposition; Habilitation; Hochschulleitung; Hochschulrat; Juniorprofessur; Post-doc; Promotion; Statistik
CEWS Kategorie:Außerhochschulische Forschung, Statistik und statistische Daten, Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
Queerness as Being in Higher Education. Narrating the Insider/Outsider Paradox as LGBTQ+ Scholars and Practitioners
Autor/in:
Duran, Antonio; Miller, Ryan A.; Jourian, T.J; Cisneros, Jesus
Quelle: Routledge, 2022.
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Inhalt: Drawing on autotheoretical methods, this insightful volume explores how LGBTQ+ scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners exist within and negotiate an insider/outsider paradox within higher education, highlighting issues of affect, legibility, and embodiment. The first of a two-volume series, this book foregrounds the experiences of LGBTQ+ higher education scholars and practitioners in the United States as they navigate cisheteronormative culture, structures, practices, and policies on campus. Through theorization of contributors’ lived experiences in relation to identity and the concept of queerness as being, the volume posits queer identity as embodied resistance and demonstrates how this plays out within an insider/outsider paradox. An innovative theoretical framing, this text artfully exemplifies how queer and trans people exist simultaneously as both insider and outsider in university communities and deepens understanding of how critical narratives might inform institutional transformation and drives toward equity. The book then looks to the future, discussing implications for research and practice, using the lessons learned from the chapter authors. Embellished with a plethora of diverse firsthand contributions and innovative scholarship, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of queer and trans studies, student affairs, gender and sexuality studies, and higher education, as well as those seeking to understand the experiences of LGBTQ+ higher education scholars and practitioners as they navigate central tensions in their practice.
Schlagwörter:Diversität; Diversity; Feminismus; higher education; Hochschulpolitik; LGBTQ; LGBTQ+; queer; queer history; Queer-Feminismus; researcher; Wissenschaftler*in
CEWS Kategorie:Diversity, Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Gleichstellungspolitik
Dokumenttyp:Monographie
Excellent and Care-less? : Gendered Everyday Practices of Early-Career Scholars in Germany and Austria
Autor/in:
Binner, Kristina; Weber, Lena
Quelle: Inequalities and the Paradigm of Excellence in Academia. Fiona Jenkins (Hrsg.), Barbara Hoenig (Hrsg.), Susanne M.Weber (Hrsg.), Andrea Wolfram (Hrsg.), London: Routledge. 2022, S 228–243
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Schlagwörter:academia; early career researcher; excellence; Gender
CEWS Kategorie:Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerksbeitrag
Are we failing female and racialized academics? A Canadian national survey examining the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on tenure and tenure‐track faculty
Autor/in:
Davis, Jennifer C.; Li, Eric Ping Hung; Butterfield, Mary Stewart; DiLabio, Gino A.; Sangunthanam, Nithi; Marcolin, Barbara
Quelle: Gend Work Organ (Gender, Work and Organization), (2022)
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Inhalt: The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused the abrupt curtailment of on-campus research activities that amplified impacts experienced by female and racialized faculty. In this mixed-method study, we systematically and strategically unpack the impact of the shift of academic work environments to remote settings on tenured and tenure-track faculty in Canada. Our quantitative analysis demonstrated that female and racialized faculty experienced higher levels of stress, social isolation and lower well-being. Fewer women faculty felt support for health and wellness. Our qualitative data highlighted substantial gender inequities reported by female faculty such as increased caregiving burden that affected their research productivity. The most pronounced impacts were felt among pre-tenured female faculty. The present study urges university administration to take further action to support female and racialized faculty through substantial organizational change and reform. Given the disproportionate toll that female and racialized faculty experienced, we suggest a novel approach that include three dimensions of change: (1) establishing quantitative metrics to assess and evaluate pandemic-induced impact on research productivity, health and well-being, (2) coordinating collaborative responses with faculty unions across the nation to mitigate systemic inequities, and (3) strategically implementing a storytelling approach to amplify the experiences of marginalized populations such as women or racialized faculty and include those experiences as part of recommendations for change.
Schlagwörter:academic work; Befragung; Canada; COVID-19; faculty; Gender; Interview; Kanada; mixed methods; race; Vereinbarkeit Beruf-Familie; wissenschaftliche Arbeit; wissenschaftliche Karriere
CEWS Kategorie:Diversity, Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Circling the divide: Gendered invisibility, precarity, and professional service work in a UK business school
Autor/in:
Seymour, Kate
Quelle: Gend Work Organ (Gender, Work and Organization), (2022)
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Inhalt: Within UK business schools, there are large numbers of female and feminized white-collar professional service (PS) employees in disproportionately low-paid, low-status roles, but surprisingly, they are largely invisible within the literature on sexism and gender inequalities in academia. This paper conceptualizes PS experiences by examining how forms of gendered invisibility affect professional staff working in the hybrid “third” space between academic and administrative realms. I develop a conceptual analysis of invisibility—of invisible work and as invisible worker—arising from the performance of professional and academic work. This allows me to analyze and distinguish forms of what I call service, professional and professional-academic housework, demonstrating how these are thoroughly imbricated in dominant patriarchal cultural ideologies of gender. In developing this schema, I draw self-reflexively on my own experiences of “circling the divide” within a UK business school, developing a rich, multi-perspectival account of the ways visibility and invisibility were experienced in the role of a particular third space professional and “academic-in-waiting.” This paper therefore contributes a systematic conceptualization of gendered invisible housework performed by PS staff within a politicized third space of UK business schools. It also brings often hidden PS “academics-in-waiting” into the literature on feminized precarity in the academy.
Schlagwörter:academic housework; business school; gender inequality; invisibility; MTV; professional service; professional staff; sexism; UK; Verwaltung
CEWS Kategorie:Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
International migration of researchers and gender imbalance in academia—the case of Norway
Autor/in:
Wendt, Kaja; Gunnes, Hebe; Aksnes, Dag W.
Quelle: Scientometrics (Scientometrics), 127 (2022) 12, S 7575–7591
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Inhalt: Female representation among students and graduates in higher education is growing internationally. This is a promising trend for achieving gender balance in top positions in academia. But there is still a long way to go, as women accounted for 26 per cent in top positions at European higher education institutions in 2018. In this article, we examine the influence of international recruitment of researchers on the gender balance—or the lack of gender balance—in Norwegian academia. We draw on data from the Norwegian Register of Research personnel, linked with population statistics from Statistics Norway. These data show that 38 per cent of the researchers at Norwegian higher education institutions in 2018 were born abroad. The share of foreign full professors has increased from 16 per cent in 2001 to 27 per cent in 2018, while for postdocs there has been an increase from 31 to 69 per cent. In terms of overall gender composition, a higher percentage of the foreign-born researchers are male compared with the native Norwegians. The incidence of international recruitment differs significantly across academic fields and is particularly prevalent in engineering. This is also the field where the gender balance is most skewed generally. Taking these variables into account, we conclude that international migration is not among the factors contributing to the gender imbalance in Norwegian academia. In fact, international recruitment has contributed positively to the gender balance in Norway in the majority of the fields analysed.
Schlagwörter:academia; full professor; gender inequality; higher education; international academic mobility; Migration; Norway; Norwegen; recruitment; Rekrutierung
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
„Wenn’s nirgendwo so richtig stimmt“ – Einblicke in qualitative Forschung zu Hochschulkarrieren und Elternschaft unter Corona-Bedingungen
Autor/in:
Haag, Hanna
Quelle: FemPol (Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft), 31 (2022) 2, S 132–136
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Inhalt: Wissenschaftskarrieren sind allgemeinhin von einem hohen Selektionsdruck gekennzeichnet (Reuter et al. 2020). In dem vorliegenden Beitrag wird insbesondere die Frage nach der (Un)-Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf mit Blick auf die pandemische Lage fokussiert und aufgezeigt, wie diese selbige verstärkt.
Schlagwörter:COVID-19; Elternschaft; Hochschulforschung; Hochschulkarriere; Interview; Qualitative Forschung; Vereinbarkeit Beruf-Familie; wissenschaftliche Karriere
CEWS Kategorie:Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf, Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
The [M]OTHER : Geschlecht im Hochschulreformdiskurs
Autor/in:
Michalczyk, Stephanie
Quelle: Beltz Juventa, 2021.
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Inhalt: „Der Hochschulreformprozess der 2000er-Jahre hat zur Implementierung neuer Governanceformen sowie zur Stärkung neoliberaler Positionen an Hochschulen geführt. Parallel wurden das Anliegen der Chancengleichheit erweitert und die hochschulische Gleichstellungspolitik ausgebaut. Auf Grundlage einer Wissenssoziologischen Diskursanalyse werden die Verhandlungen von Geschlechterungleichheit im öffentlichen Hochschulreformdiskurs untersucht und die Kontinuität vergeschlechtlichter Deutungsmuster aufgezeigt, die auch zu einer kritischen Diskussion des Verhältnisses von Gleichstellungspolitik und neoliberaler Hochschulpolitik führen.“
Schlagwörter:Exzellenz; Förderung; Geschlechterverhältnis; Hochschulreform; Mutterschaft; Spitzenwissenschaftlerin
CEWS Kategorie:Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Monographie