Quelle: Hochschulmanagement. Zeitschrift für die Leitung, Entwicklung und Selbstverwaltung von Hochschulen und Wissenschaftseinrichtungen, 17 (2022) 3+4, S 85–90
Quelle: Hochschulmanagement. Zeitschrift für die Leitung, Entwicklung und Selbstverwaltung von Hochschulen und Wissenschaftseinrichtungen, 17 (2022) 3+4, S 91–95
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Gleichstellungspolitik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Women’s experiences of racial microaggressions in STEMM workplaces and the importance of white allyship
Autor/in:
Moore, Robyn; Nash, Meredith
Quelle: International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology; Vol 13, No 1 (2021), (2021)
Inhalt: This article explores how gender interacts with race, ethnicity and/or culture to structure the microaggressions experienced by visibly and culturally diverse women in Australian Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM) organisations. We focus on these women’s experiences to disrupt the normative erasure of race from the workplace diversity context. We conducted 30 semi-structured interviews with women in academia, industry and government who self-identify as women of colour or as culturally diverse. We use an intersectional lens to show that the challenges experienced by visibly and culturally diverse women cannot simply be subsumed under gender. Rather, race and gender intersect to create overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination and disadvantage. These issues are largely unintelligible in STEMM fields as science is positioned as gender- and race-neutral. Consequently, despite their devastating impact, racial microaggressions may be invisible to members of the dominant racial group—those most likely to be the peers and managers of visibly and culturally diverse women. White managers and peers can act as allies to women of colour in STEMM by respecting and amplifying their concerns. Learning to recognise and confront racial microaggressions can help make science workplaces more inclusive of all scientists.
Dual-anonymization Yields Promising Results for Reducing Gender Bias : A Naturalistic Field Experiment of Applications for Hubble Space Telescope Time
Autor/in:
Johnson, Stefanie K.; Kirk, Jessica F.
Quelle: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 132 (2020) 1009
Inhalt: Using archival data, we examine the effects of the Hubble Space Telescope Time Allocation Committee (HST TAC)’s decision to adopt a dual- rather than single-anonymous review process. The change involved removing, to varying degrees, information about the Principal Investigator (PI) with the goal of reducing bias against women. Proposals led by female PIs were significantly more likely to be accepted in the five cycles following the changes compared to the 11 cycles using a single-anonymous review system. Taking a closer look at why these changes emerged, we examined data at the reviewer-level in the cycle immediately preceding the change compared to three of the cycles after the change. We found that male reviewers rated female PIs significantly worse than they rated male PIs before, but not after, dual-anonymization was adopted.
How to banish manels and manferences from scientific meetings
Autor/in:
Else, Holly
Quelle: Nature, 573 (2019) 7773, S 184–186
Inhalt: A Nature analysis finds that several fields of science are moving away from male-dominated conferences and panels — but it’s easy to slip back into old habits.
Schlagwörter:Geschlechterverteilung; Konferenz; Teilhabe; USA
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Gleichstellungspolitik
Inhalt: Scientific excellence and equal opportunities have been on the agenda for more than a decade now, raising serious doubts on the functioning of meritocracy as the major principle of assigning merit within academia. Our discourse analytical study of twelve expert interviews shows how both discourses are interrelated, thereby creating different perspectives on meritocracy and universities as organizations. Our analysis reveals three major discursive « meetings » of the two concepts : While in a first « meeting », excellence and equal opportunities are seen as fundamentally contradicting concepts and meritocracy in universities remains taken for granted, in a second meeting, the notion of scientific excellence and especially the norm of the male ideal researcher is criticized and hence the relationship between excellence and equal opportunities is problematized. In a third meeting, excellence is seen as highly dependent on equal opportunities, turning around the so far hierarchical relationship between excellence and equal opportunities. There are three major differences in the consequences of each meeting. First, meritocracy is either debated or taken for granted. Second, the focus shifts from individual researchers to selection criteria and finally the strategic aspect of positioning universities in a competitive market. Furthermore, while the focus is on women in the first meeting and shifts to critiquing procedures in the second, institutional change is at the heart of the third meeting. Our analysis hence shows that there is a greater variety of interplays than often talked about that offer different and even new ways forward.
Ausschreibung und Stellenbesetzung an Universitäten
Autor/in:
Novak, Manfred
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Hochschulrecht, Hochschulmanagement und Hochschulpolitik, 17 (2018) 2, S 31–37
Inhalt: Das Stellenbesetzungsverfahren an Universitäten wird mit dem Akt der Ausschreibung eingeleitet. Da die Ausschreibung von maßgeblicher Bedeutung für den Bewerber-Pool und das Verfahrensergebnis und damit für eine anforderungsgerechte Stellenbesetzung ist, spielt sie eine ausschlaggebende Rolle für die Verfahrensrichtigkeit im Besetzungsverfahren. Die unabdingbaren Voraussetzungen für eine korrekte Stellenausschreibung sowie mögliche Fehler und deren Konsequenzen sind in diesem Zusammenhang von wesentlichem Interesse. Dabei kommt dem Frauenförderungsgebot und dem Diskriminierungsverbot für die Auslotung von Erfordernissen und Fehlerfolgen besondere Relevanz zu. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Gleichstellungspolitik, Hochschulen, Berufungsverfahren
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Change and Persistence of Gender Disparities in Academic Careers of Mathematicians and Physicists in Germany
Autor/in:
Langfeldt, Bettina; Mischau, Anina
Quelle: International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 10 (2018) 1
Inhalt: This article discusses whether or not gender-related disparities exist within the academic fields of mathematics and physics regarding the application of career knowledge and the experiences of disadvantage in relation to recognition of performance, assessment of professional competencies, and integration into networks. To answer this question, primary data was collected with a structured online survey addressing graduates in both academic fields (n=5,174). The article considers a subsample of respondents working at a university or university of applied sciences (n=1,613). Apart from the gender perspective, other factors potentially influencing the academic careers of mathematicians and physicists, such as being in a certain subject, age cohort or having children, are also considered. Some of the key findings are: a) more gender differences occur in mathematics than in physics; b) the experiences of disadvantage in the workplace constitute a cross-disciplinary phenomenon caused by the gender differentiating academic culture; and c) more female than male academics in both disciplines accept constraints or abandon career goals due to child care. /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Normale Tabelle"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}
Schlagwörter:academic career; Akademische Karriere; Befragung; career knowledge; Deutschland; Diskriminierung; gender disparities; German higher education system; Geschlechterungleichheit; Hochschule; Hochschulsystem; Karriereplanung; Karriereweg; Leistungsbewertung; mathematics; Mathematik; Netzwerk; physics; Physik; wissenschaftliche Karriere
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Gleichstellungspolitik, Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung