When faith intersects with gender: the challenges and successes in the experiences of Muslim women academics
Autor/in:
Ramadan, Ibtihal
Quelle: Gender and Education, (2021) , S 1–16
Inhalt: This paper explores the experiences of eight Muslim women academics (MWA) within a range of sciences and humanities disciplines. The data draws from my doctoral study which examined the experiences of men and women Muslim academics at UK universities. Findings from in-depth interviews with participants highlight the intersectionality of religio-gendered identities as central to their experiences. Being hijabed in academia triggered gendered-Islamophobic micro-aggressions, whose potential impact on the participants was buffered by their resilience, positive outlook, and belief. Further, they capitalized on their visible faith to demystify negative perceptions about Muslims and to advance their career-through utilizing the diversity logic within academia, while recognizing its tokenistic nature. Despite facing challenges, the participants share certain qualities that facilitate success, with agency being the uppermost quality.
Schlagwörter:academics; akademische Karriere; Großbritannien; Intersektionalität; Islam; microaggressions; Muslim; muslim woman; Rassismus; UK
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Diversity, Europa und Internationales, Geschlechterverhältnis
Quelle: Gender and Education, 32 (2020) 1, S 11–26
Inhalt: Drawing on data collected in a cross-disciplinary survey of early-career academics (ECAs) in New Zealand, this article explores the factors influencing ECA conference attendance. Our conceptual framework uses conference attendance as the dependent variable and measures gender, ethnicity, family responsibilities and workload. Three key features affect conference attendance: "demographic characteristics" (background features and prior experiences that affect an academic's willingness and ability to attend), "accessibility" (constraints to attending, such as financing, family responsibilities, institutional support or teaching commitments) and "purpose" (the value placed on attending conferences by the individual, the institution, or the discipline). In particular, we identify differences for women, Indigenous people, and those born overseas with respect to their ability to navigate and their inclination to attend national and international conferences.
Schlagwörter:conference culture; early career researcher; ethnic minority; gender inequality; Konferenz; Neuseeland; wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Diversity, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Inhalt: This book comprehensively covers diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the context of daily surgical practice. Through real-life illustrative case scenarios and experiences, this book explores DEI and its impact on academic surgery, career development, and clinical practice. Each chapter highlights a commonly encountered scenario and features extensive guidance on how to address each challenge secondary to both implicit explicit biases as well as detailing how to implement best practices.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion provides a detailed guide to the best practices and challenges associated with implementing DEI in day to day surgical practice and is a valuable resource for all surgical practitioners looking for a guide on how to successfully implement DEI strategies into daily clinical practice.
Schlagwörter:bias; career development; Diversity; equity; inclusion; Leadership; medicine; Mentor; surgery
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Diversity
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Everyday sexism and racism in the ivory tower: The experiences of early career researchers on the intersection of gender and ethnicity in the academic workplace
Autor/in:
Bourabain, Dounia
Quelle: Gend Work Organ (Gender, Work and Organization), (2020)
Inhalt: The academic workplace is often described as a place of merit and equal opportunities. However, research shows a leaky pipeline where the share of women and people of color decreases in the higher echelons of academia. Explanations are often structural, referring to the access barriers women are confronted with, such as hiring and recruitment. This research investigates what goes wrong in the early phases of a female academic's career. From an intersectional perspective, I study the experiences with everyday sexism and racism of PhD and postdoctoral researchers across disciplines. After conducting 50 in‐depth interviews, four processes are discovered: smokescreen of equality, everyday cloning, patronization, and paternalism.
Gender and Race Intersectional Effects in the U.S. Engineering Workforce : Who Stays? Who Leaves?
Autor/in:
Tao, Yu; McNeely, Connie L.
Quelle: GST (International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology), 11 (2019) 1, S 181–202
Inhalt: In many countries, engineering remains a field in which women are highly underrepresented, raising questions not only of equal access, but also of underutilized and wasted potential in engineering talent. The United States is one such country, with women representing only 15% of the engineering workforce. Moreover, even if initially entering the field, women in the United States are more likely than men to leave engineering altogether. This study further analyzes this situation, recognizing that women are a demographically varied group and questioning how differences among them might be reflected in engineering participation outcomes. Emphasizing race and gender, and employing logit regression and marginal effects tests, it considers intersectional configurations to examine probabilities of staying and working in engineering occupations among recipients of engineering degrees. Different gendered patterns are revealed for working in engineering among Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, African Americans, and White Americans. Moreover, gender and race groups present varying retention rates in engineering occupations over time. Findings also confirm inter- and intra-group gender and racial/ethnic differences and disparities that would not have been revealed without attention to intersectional effects on participation in engineering fields.
Diversität in öffentlichen Einrichtungen : Antidiskriminierungs- und Gleichstellungsdaten in der Praxis - Ergebnisse einer Piloterhebung unter Führungskräften der Berliner Verwaltung und Unternehmen mit Mehrheitsbeteiligung des Landes
Quelle: Vielfalt entscheidet – Diversity in Leadership; Citizens for Europe; Berlin, 2018.
Inhalt: "Mit der Studie „Diversität in öffentlichen Einrichtungen in Berlin – Erfahrungen und Kompetenzen auf Führungsebene“ entwickeln wir für die Berliner Verwaltung einen Vielfaltscheck. Wir möchten herausfinden, welche Strategien und Maßnahmen die Berliner Verwaltung zur Förderung von Chancengerechtigkeit und Vielfalt bereits nutzt und wie wirksam sie sind. Der Vielfaltscheck ermöglicht es erstmalig und umfassend, die Vielfalt in den Leitungspositionen der Berliner Verwaltung zu erfassen. Dabei definieren wir Vielfalt nicht nur über das Geschlecht oder den Migrationshintergrund, sondern beziehen weitere Dimensionen mit ein.
Durch unsere konzeptionelle und empirische Grundlagenforschung im Bereich der Erhebung von Gleichstellungsdaten in Deutschland, trägt die Studie zur Evaluierung des Berliner Partizipations- und Integrationsgesetzes bei.
Der Vielfaltscheck wird unter Einbeziehung unterschiedlicher Communities und Forscher*innen entwickelt und ermöglicht es, neben dem Geschlecht u. a. auch Diversitätsdimensionen wie People of Color / Menschen mit Rassismuserfahrungen in Datensätzen sichtbar zu machen.
Das Umfrageinstrument erfasst somit die Konturen von Diversität und formeller wie informeller Institutionalisierung von Gleichstellungspraktiken.
Da alle Verwaltungen vor der Herausforderung stehen, als gutes Beispiel für Inklusion voranzugehen und die Vielfalt der Gesellschaft widerzuspiegeln, können die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse der Berliner Verwaltung anschließend auf andere Bereiche und Bundesländer übertragen werden."
‘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
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.
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Diversity, Europa und Internationales, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Geschlechterverhältnis, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Ausmaß, Entwicklung und Ursachen sozialer Ungleichheit beim Promotionszugang zwischen 1989–2009
Autor/in:
Jaksztat, Steffen; Lörz, Markus
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 47 (2018) 1, S 46–64
Inhalt: Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie sich herkunftsspezifische Unterschiede beim Promotionszugang im Zeitverlauf entwickelt haben und welche Ursachen möglichen Veränderungen zugrunde liegen. Vor dem Hintergrund kultureller Reproduktions- und rationaler Entscheidungsprozesse werden verschiedene Erklärungsansätze skizziert und hinsichtlich ihrer empirischen Evidenz betrachtet. Als Datenbasis dienen Hochschulabsolventenstudien der Kohorten 1989 bis 2009. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass in allen Jahren bemerkenswerte Unterschiede nach sozialer Herkunft bestehen. Zudem finden sich Hinweise dafür, dass Ungleichheiten am Promotionsübergang im Zeitverlauf tendenziell zugenommen haben. Diese Zunahme ist offenbar vorwiegend auf ein verändertes Bildungsverhalten der weniger privilegierten Gruppen zurückzuführen. Insbesondere die Studienfachwahl, aber auch primäre Herkunftseffekte sowie eine stärkere Einbindung der privilegierten Gruppen in den Universitätsbetrieb in Form von Hilfskrafttätigkeiten scheinen zu zunehmenden Unterschieden geführt zu haben.