Rethinking Gender Centres in Nigerian Universities
Autor/in:
Igiebor, Oluwakemi Temitope
Quelle: jgcs (Journal of Gender, Culture and Society), 2 (2022) 2, S 11–19
Inhalt: For the past three decades, discussions centred on gender equity have become buzzwords in academic institutions in Nigeria, which has led to an increasing effort to establish gender centres and adopt equity policies. Despite the awareness and presence of gender centres in Nigerian universities, institutionalising gender equity has been challenging. There is a struggle to explain how policy absence and gender centre mergers may constrain positive institutional gender change. This article explores why academic institutions have established gender centres but have not created gender policies. Taking into account the gender stakeholder’s perspectives in two purposively selected universities in Nigeria, this study utilises an integrated feminist approach to investigate why university gender centres are unable to advance gender equity within the institutions. Concepts like institutional resistance and layering offered tools that helped capture the dynamics of institutional change and stasis in the case studies. Findings showed that the existence of gender centres without formalised policies is a window-dressing approach that limits the potential for gender equity within the universities. It also revealed how the redirection of gender centres through mergers with other centres is ‘gendered’. Evidence showed that the prospect for institutional gender change is often tempered by merging incompatible and non-complementary centres. This study, thus, adds to the scholarly literature on institutional resistance, providing valuable insights into the subtle manifestations of resistance towards gender equity institutionalisation in academia.
Gleichstellungspolitik im Kontext neuer Governance an Universitäten : Praxis der Gleichstellungsakteur_innen an den Universitäten und für die Politik - Grundlegende Studie
Autor/in:
Erbe, Birgit
Quelle: Springer, 2022.
Inhalt: Das Buch widmet sich den immensen Herausforderungen, die an die Gleichstellungspolitik an Hochschulen gestellt werden, und stützt sich dabei auf Ansätze der Governance-, Organisations- und Geschlechterforschung. Mit der Hochschulreform seit Ende der 1990er Jahre sollte das ‚Steuerungsproblem‘ des Hochschulbereichs mit neuen, vom New Public Management geprägten Formen der Governance gelöst werden. Da das Steuerungsproblem auch auf die Hochschulgleichstellungspolitik zutrifft, sind die beiden zentralen Fragen der Untersuchung: Wo liegen die Chancen und Grenzen der veränderten Governance-Strukturen für Gleichstellungspolitik? Was bedeuten sie für die Praxis der Gleichstellungsakteur_innen an den Universitäten und für die Politik? Anhand von vier kontrastierenden Organisationsfallstudien wird nachvollzogen, wie es den untersuchten Universitäten trotz schwieriger Rahmenbedingungen gelingt, längerfristige gleichstellungspolitische Veränderungen innerhalb ihrer Organisationen zu realisieren und welche Faktoren dafür ausschlaggebend sind
Schlagwörter:equality work; Geschlechterforschung; Gleichstellung; Gleichstellungspolitik; Governance; Governance-Ansatz; Hochschulpolitik; new public management; Organisationsforschung
CEWS Kategorie:Hochschulen, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Geschlechterverhältnis, Gleichstellungspolitik
Dokumenttyp:Monographie
From Theory to Practice and Back: How the Concept of Implicit Bias was Implemented in Academe, and What this Means for Gender Theories of Organizational Change
Inhalt: Implicit bias is one of the most successful cases in recent memory of an academic concept being translated into practice. Its use in the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program—which seeks to promote gender equality in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) careers through institutional transformation—has raised fundamental questions about organizational change. How do advocates translate theories into practice? What makes some concepts more tractable than others? What happens to theories through this translation process? We explore these questions using the ADVANCE program as a case study. Using an inductive, theory-building approach and combination of computational and qualitative methods, we investigate how the concept of implicit bias was translated into practice through the ADVANCE program and identify five key features that made implicit bias useful as a change framework in the academic STEM setting. We find that the concept of implicit bias works programmatically because it is (1) demonstrable, (2) relatable, (3) versatile, (4) actionable, and (5) impartial. While enabling the concept’s diffusion, these characteristics also limit its scope. We reflect on implications for gender theories of organizational change and for practitioners.
Inhalt: The title of this volume captures a central question in contemporary Gender Studies and Sociology. It has, in different ways, preoccupied the researchers who contribute to this special volume for many years. Inspired by feminist theory and practice, it addresses the gendering, the complex gendering, of knowledge, science, research, policy, equality, academia, universities and higher education, along with many interlinked reflections and memories on working together, collegiality and friendship.
Schlagwörter:excellence; Fellowship; gatekeeping; harassment; knowledge production
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Hochschulen, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Gleichstellungspolitik
Quelle: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 34 (2019) 5, S 395–399
Inhalt: Why do inequalities persist betweenmale and female scientists, when the causes are well-researched and widely condemned? In part, because equality has many dimensions. Presenting eightdefinitions of gender equality, we show each is important but incomplete. Rigid application of any single equality indicator can therefore have perverse outcomes.
Handbook on the International Political Economy of Gender
Herausgeber/in:
Elias, Juanita; Roberts, Adrienne
Quelle: Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing (Handbooks of research on international political economy), 2018. x, 522 S
Inhalt: The Handbook of the International Political Economy of Production offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the changing world of global production. The book explores the topic in a range of directions, including the human material 'used' in production across the globe and alternatives proposed from different quarters.
Chapters cover the geography of why and where jobs are moving in both manufacturing and services. The doubling of the world's available labour supply after the opening up of the planned economies in Europe and Asia has sharply tilted the balance of power towards giant corporations. Labour and the politics of work is analyzed in a number of key countries. Possible signs of a recovery of organized labour's negotiating power on this vastly expanded playing field are discussed in separate chapters, and a complete overview is provided of labour research networks currently active. This important volume addresses topics relating to the human and natural basis on which production rests, from the consequences of the exploitation of the body and mind to sex work, biotechnology, and the prospects for ecological re-balancing.
Schlagwörter:Gender; Handbuch; Political economy
CEWS Kategorie:Gleichstellungspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Inhalt: This Palgrave Handbook provides a definitive account of women’s political rights across all major regions of the world, focusing both on women’s right to vote and women’s right to run for political office. This dual focus makes this the first book to combine historical overviews of debates about enfranchising women alongside analyses of more contemporary efforts to increase women’s political representation around the globe. Chapter authors map and assess the impact of these groundbreaking reforms, providing insight into these dynamics in a wide array of countries where women’s suffrage and representation have taken different paths and led to varying degrees of transformation. On the eve of many countries celebrating a century of women’s suffrage, as well as record numbers of women elected and appointed to political office, this timely volume offers an important introduction to ongoing developments related to women’s political empowerment worldwide. It will be of interest to students and scholars across the fields of gender and politics, women’s studies, history and sociology.
CEWS Kategorie:Gleichstellungspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Preisdifferenzierung nach Geschlecht in Deutschland : Forschungsbericht - Eine Studie im Auftrag der Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes
Autor/in:
an der Heiden, Iris; Wersig, Maria
Quelle: , 2018.
Inhalt: Eine Reihe von Studien kommt seit den 90er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts zu dem Ergebnis, dass Frauen für vergleichbare Produkte und
Dienstleistungen wie Rasierer und Haarschnitt mehr bezahlen als Männer, zuletzt umfangreich erhoben in New York 2015. Für Deutschland
wurden von Verbraucherzentralen, von Medien und in Blogs ebenfalls
viele solcher nach Geschlecht unterschiedlichen Preise identifiziert.
Die vorliegende systematische Untersuchung zeigt erstmals umfassend,
dass es in Deutschland keine pauschal höheren Preise für Frauen oder für
pinke Produkte gibt. Einzelne Produkte und Dienstleistungsbereiche weisen jedoch nicht nachvollziehbare unterschiedliche Preise für Frauen und
Männer auf. Einige Angebote verstoßen nach der vorliegenden rechtlichen
Bewertung gegen das Allgemeine Gleichstellungsgesetz (AGG).
Quelle: ForschungFrankfurt. Das Wissenschaftsmagazin der Goethe-Universität, 35 (2018) 1, S 67–69
Inhalt: Schon kurz nachdem die Studentenbewegung begonnen hatte, formierte sich innerhalb dieser neuen sozialen Bewegung eine Frauenopposition – eine Revolte innerhalb der Revolte. Frankfurt war neben Berlin einer der wichtigsten Schauplätze für den Kampf um Selbstbestimmung.
Schlagwörter:Frankfurt; Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung; Frauenbewegung; Frauengeschichte; Geschichte
CEWS Kategorie:Gleichstellungspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung