Quelle: Gend Work Organ (Gender, Work and Organization), (2023)
Inhalt: In response to persistent systemic gendered and racial exclusions in the sciences, unconscious or implicit bias training is now widely established as an organizational intervention in Higher Education (HE). Recent systematic reviews have considered the efficacy of unconscious bias training (UBT) but not the wider characteristics and effects of the interventions themselves. Guided by feminist scholarship in critical psychology and post-structuralist discourse theory, this article critically examines UBT across STEMM and in HE institutions with a discursive analysis of published studies. Drawn from systematic searches in 4 databases, we identify three types of UBT reported in 22 studies with considerable variation in intervention types, target groups, and evaluation methods. Guided by limited cognitive problematizations of unconscious bias as a problem located inside individual minds, interventions follow established patterns in neoliberal governmentality and make available specific feeling rules and subject positions. These current Equality, Diversity & Inclusion practices present a new technology of power through which organizations may regulate affect and behavior but leave structural inequalities and barriers to inclusion intact.
Qualitätssicherung von Gleichstellungsmaßnahmen in der Wissenschaft: Ergebnisse aus dem Projekt StaRQ - Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW
Inhalt: Der vorliegende Beitrag fokussiert auf zentrale Ergebnisse aus dem BMBF-geförderten Projekt StaRQ (2019-2023) und zeigt Perspektiven sowie ausgewählte Erkenntnisse zum Handlungsfeld Geschlechtersensibilisierung auf.
Quelle: Gend Work Organ (Gender, Work and Organization), (2021)
Inhalt: We conducted a meta-synthesis review of existing literature on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) mentoring programs for women. Critical feminist theory (CFT) was used to understand how mentoring programs support retention and occupational advancement of women in traditionally male-dominated STEM fields. Four primary strands of CFT were explored: gender, oppression/patriarchy, social institutions, and systemic change. Traditional models of mentoring encompass varied approaches, including institutionally enforced programs, formal and informal programs, paired peer grouping, as well as face-to-face and online forums. However, low levels of retention and self-stated lack of professional satisfaction for women in STEM fields continue to plague those professions. This study reviews the literature on mentoring programs that have been implemented to support women in STEM, thus adding to the epistemology of mentoring women in STEM through feminist discourse.
Schlagwörter:Gleichstellungsmaßnahmen; Ingenieurwissenschaft; literature review; Mentoring; Meta-Analyse; meta-analysis; MINT; Naturwissenschaften; STEM
"Die Benachteiligungsmaschinerie läuft immer noch wie geschmiert"
Autor/in:
Schmidt, Andrea; Wiarda, Jan-Martin
Quelle: Blog Jan-Martin Wiarda, (2020) 14.1.2020
Inhalt: Frauen müssen sich besser gegenseitig unterstützen in der Wissenschaft, um Karriere zu machen, findet Andrea Schmidt – und hat mit Mitstreiterinnen das Netzwerk Professorinnen2 gegründet. Ein Interview über vermeintlich männliches Genietum, die "Sister Ceiling" und ein ungewöhnliches Projekt.
Quelle: Köln Z Soziol (KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie), 72 (2020) 2, S 225–263
Inhalt: Dieser Beitrag untersucht, inwiefern Mentoringprogramme und betriebliche Frauenquoten als zwei zentrale Gleichstellungsmaßnahmen mit geringeren geschlechtsspezifischen Einkommensungleichheiten in deutschen Großbetrieben einhergehen. Zusätzlich wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern die Bedeutung dieser Gleichstellungsmaßnahmen zwischen Beschäftigtengruppen mit unterschiedlichem Qualifikationsniveau variiert und ob traditionelle Geschlechterideologien innerhalb der Belegschaft die Effektivität von Gleichstellungsmaßnahmen konterkarieren. Auf Grundlage von Linked-Employer-Employee-Daten, die sowohl administrative als auch Befragungsdaten für 5072 Beschäftigte in 93 Betrieben beinhalten, wurden Regressionsanalysen mit betriebsbezogenen Fixed Effects berechnet. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Einkommensbenachteiligungen von Frauen innerhalb von Betrieben nicht mit dem Angebot von Mentoringprogrammen variieren. Demgegenüber zeigen sich geringere Einkommensungleichheiten zwischen den Geschlechtern in Betrieben mit Frauenquote. Dies gilt allerdings nur für Beschäftigte mit hohem Qualifikationsniveau und in Betrieben, in denen gleichzeitig eher egalitäre Geschlechterideologien in der Belegschaft vorherrschen. In traditionellen Betriebskontexten bestehen trotz Frauenquote geschlechtsspezifische Einkommensungleichheiten zwischen Beschäftigten mit höherem Qualifikationsniveau.;
Myriad potential for mentoring : Understanding the process of transformational change through a gender equality intervention
Autor/in:
Leenders, Joke; Bleijenbergh, Inge L.; van den Brink, Marieke C.L.
Quelle: Gender Work Organ (Gender, Work & Organization), 4 (2019) 2, 139 S
Inhalt: This article contributes to understanding transformational change towards gender equality by examining the transformational change potential of a mentoring programme for women, a type of gender equality intervention both criticized and praised for its ability to bring about change. Drawing upon an empirical case study of a mentoring programme for women academics in a Dutch university, we explore three dimensions of transformational change: organizational members (i) discussing and reflecting upon gendered organizational norms and work practices; (ii) creating new narratives; and (iii) experimenting with new work practices. Our findings indicate five specific conditions that enable transformational change: cross‐mentoring, questioning what is taken for granted, repeating participation and individual stories, facilitating peer support networks and addressing and equipping all participants as change agents. We suggest that these conditions should be taken into account when (re)designing effective organizational gender equality interventions.
Homophily, Biased Attention, and the Gender Gap in Science
Autor/in:
Lerchenmueller, Marc; Hoisl, Karin; Schmallenbach, Leo
Quelle: Proceedings (Academy of Management Proceedings), 2019 (2019) 1
Inhalt: How does homophilous collaboration influence women's early career progress? To answer this question, we turn to a granular dataset of 3,233 highly qualified junior life scientists who receive mentored, early career sponsorship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and analyze their publication trajectories as careers unfold. Employing a matched sample approach that exploits variance in the sets of research contacts the junior scientists start out with, we distinguish sex differences in collaboration choices from potential differences in collaboration opportunities. We document that outsized gender homophily among women exists and primarily stems from how female leaders of scientific projects assemble their teams. Women continue same-sex collaborations as lead authors at twice the rate compared to men, on average, and in particular when the mentor is part of the author team or when the focal junior scientist leads the team. As such, systematic gender homophily among female scientists may engender the sponsorship and resources needed to motivate young women to join and pursue an academic career. On the flip side, we show that author teams led by women receive 11% less citations, on average, and up to 29% less citations for work of comparable caliber published in the most influential journals. Taken together, while women's propensity to working with other women may support early career researchers, biased attention to women's work may harm careers and, in particular, women who publish in the highest-impact journals and who would otherwise be poised to narrowing gender gaps at more senior career stages.
Reducing Gender Bias In Modern Workplaces : A Small Wins Approach to Organizational Change
Autor/in:
Correll, Shelley J.
Quelle: Gender & Society, 31 (2017) 6, S 725–750
Inhalt: The accumulation and advancement of gender scholarship over past decades has led us to the point where gender scholars today can leverage our deep understanding of the reproduction of gender inequality to develop and test models of change. In this lecture, I present one such model designed to reduce the negative effects of stereotypic biases on women’s workplace outcomes. After synthesizing the literature on stereotyping and bias and showing the limits of past change efforts, I develop a “small wins” model of change. Key to this model is that researchers work with teams of managers to produce concrete, implementable actions that produce visible results. I argue that small wins motivate further action and are the building blocks to larger organizational transformation. Preliminary results from several case studies show that this approach can produce important changes in the short run, such as reducing gender biases in workplace evaluations, and that these small wins can inspire longer run change, such as increases in the rate of hiring women.