Wissenschaftskarriere, Geschlecht und Fachkultur : Bewältigungsstrategien in Mathematik und Sozialwissenschaften
Titelübersetzung:Science careers, gender and special culture : coping strategies in mathematics and social sciences
Autor/in:
Vogel, Ulrike; Hinz, Christiana
Quelle: Bielefeld: Kleine (Wissenschaftliche Reihe, Bd. 153), 2004. 184 S.
Inhalt: "Was tragen Hochschule und Familie zur Bewältigung einer Hochschulkarriere bei? Dies wurde bei Männern und Frauen aller Karrierestufen aus Mathematik und Sozialwissenschaften in einer qualitativen und einer repräsentativen Studie erfragt. Alle Befragten identifizieren sich mit Wissenschaftsbetrieb und Hochschullaufbahn. Allerdings sehen sich die Frauen, insbesondere wenn sie sich ihrer Hochschulkarriere noch nicht sicher sind, in der Hochschule weniger gefördert sowie in Familie bzw. Partnerschaft stärker belastet als die Männer. Wie sehen dabei die Karriereperspektiven von Frauen und Männern auf den verschiedenen Stufen der Hochschullaufbahn aus? Welche Auswirkungen haben die unterschiedlichen Fachkulturen auf Benachteiligungen und Privilegierungen von Frauen und Männern? Wie leisten Frauen und Männer auf den verschiedenen Stufen der Hochschullaufbahn in den unter-schiedlichen Fachkulturen die Balance zwischen Beruf und Partnerschaft bzw. Familie? Und welche Perspektiven auf Veränderungen der Arbeitsteilung zwischen den Geschlechtern lassen sich in beiden Bereichen - im Sinne einer Angleichung von Karrierechancen - erkennen? Auf diese Fragen gibt das Buch fundierte Antworten." (Autorenreferat)
CEWS Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Monographie
Gender and academic careers in cross-national perspective : preliminary results from a WEU survey in Poland and Germany
Autor/in:
Majcher, Agnieszka
Quelle: Institut für Politikwissenschaft, FB 06 Erziehungswissenschaft und Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Münster; Münster (Training paper / Women in European Universities, Research and Training Network), 2004. 50 S.
Inhalt: "This paper presents preliminary findings from a WEU international survey of the academic men and women in Poland and Germany. In this paper we focus on selected aspects of academic careers linked to tensions that may arise from different and conflicting roles men and women play in professional and private spheres. We attempted to propose an explanatory framework that would allow us to explain cross-national differences between career patterns in both countries as well as the extend of gender differences within the countries. This explanatory framework is linked to different university cultures and organizational aspects academic careers as well as different contexts and histories of higher education feminization processes. In Germany they would be based on negative or discriminatory integration of women into German academia and in Poland the integration took through 'loyalty contract' with all positive and negative consequences (e.g. acceptance of patriarchal and paternalistic academic culture and resistance to the feminist discourse). We found that barriers and hindrances related to the problems with reconciliation between work and family do not play a major role in career outcomes of academic women neither in Poland nor in Germany but they still affect career strategies in Germany. Polish academia provides also much more room for reconciliation of work and family than German one and this seems to be even more crucial than availability or quality of childcare. Generally academic careers in Germany put more pressures on both men and women than in Poland. Moreover these pressures seem to have less to do with the workload but rather organization of academic careers." (author's abstract)
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.
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)