Women's catch 22: reaching the top in an academic career
Autor/in:
Bjerstedt, Daniel
Quelle: Institut für Politikwissenschaft, FB 06 Erziehungswissenschaft und Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Münster; Münster (Training paper / Women in European Universities, Research and Training Network, 03,05), 2003. 52 S.
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Inhalt: "This paper examines why there is a continual struggle for women in Sweden to reach gender equality within academic professions even after ten years of governmental policies promoting gender equality. Using statistical data analysis I can show a pattern where women academics tend not to return to their place of work after a period of long-term sick leave. Through empirical analysis of a focus group interview of female academics own experiences of doing career in a male dominated area is evaluated. I conclude that changed working conditions for women, with an increasing amount of de-professionalizing tasks, have lead to a situation where an increasing number of women lower their work commitment as a coping strategy or exit the profession temporarily or permanently through a period of sick leave. Both these factors, produced by the work place, prevent women from reaching top positions within Swedish universities. Thus, while women's possibilities for making a career in academia formally has been strengthen new obstacles preventing advancement within the organization have appeared. This study brings two of these new and hidden discriminating factors to the surface." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Schweden; Hochschulwesen; Karriere; Wissenschaftlerin; Akademikerin
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere
Dokumenttyp:Monographie
Who will do the science of the future? : a symposium on careers of women in science
Herausgeber/in:
National Academy of Sciences
Quelle: National Academy of Sciences; Washington: National Academy Press, 2000. XIII, 87 S.
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Schlagwörter:Karriere; Wissenschaftlerin; Akademikerin; Hochschulwesen; Mentoring; Führungsposition; Arbeitsmarkt
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Monographie
Who succeeds in science? : the gender dimension
Autor/in:
Sonnert, Gerhard
Quelle: New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1995. XVI, 215 S.
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Schlagwörter:Geschlechterforschung; Karriere; Wissenschaftlerin; Berufsverlauf; Geschlechterverhältnis; Hierarchie; Hochschulwesen
CEWS Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Monographie