Quelle: Nat Rev Mater (Nature Reviews Materials), (2023)
Inhalt: Higher education and research institutions are critical to the well-being and success of societies, meaning their financial support is strongly in the public interest. At the same time, value-for-money principles demand that such investment delivers. Unfortunately, these principles are currently violated by one of the biggest sources of public funding inefficiency: sexism.
“The ethos expected from a management professor forces us to act straight”: Heterosexist harassment against gay professors in Brazil
Autor/in:
Freitas Oleto, Alice de; Palhares, José Vitor
Quelle: Gend Work Organ (Gender, Work and Organization), (2022)
Inhalt: This study aims to analyze how gay Brazilian professors experience heterosexist harassment and the implications of this type of violence for the interpersonal relationships of these professors and for the teaching-learning process in the academic environment. To this end, we conducted an exploratory study with a qualitative approach. The data were collected through an online survey using the Google Forms platform based on cases reported by 13 gay Brazilian professors working in a technological or higher education institution at the time of the harassment. Our data suggest that most respondents suffered heterosexist harassment in the workplace with violence being more explicit when the professor is more effeminate. Furthermore, we found that the naturalization of games considered harmless and homophobic jokes in the workplace can compromise the fight against heterosexist harassment in organizations. As a result, respondents report behavioral and workplace changes to fit into social norms and to be socially accepted, physical and psychological problems, professional and interpersonal relationships, adversely affecting educational experiences.
Student violence towards teaching assistants in UK schools: a case of gender-based violence
Autor/in:
Holt, Amanda; Birchall, Jenny
Quelle: Gender and Education, (2022) , S 1–16
Inhalt: In recent years significant research attention has focused on the problem of student violence in schools and, to a lesser extent, on its relationship to gender-based violence. However, student violence towards teaching assistants has not been studied, despite evidence suggesting that teaching assistants are at significantly more risk from student violence than other staff members. In this article, we draw on data from 16 in-depth interviews with teaching assistants who have experienced student violence. We conclude that violence towards teaching assistants is ignored, in both research and in schools, precisely because of the feminized and under-valued nature of the role, and argue that the continual victimization of teaching assistants diminishes their status further. We highlight its parallels with gender-based violence and argue that applying such a framework is key to recognizing the personal and social harms that this violence causes and the organizational responses that leaves teaching assistants particularly vulnerable.
Inhalt: "This eye-opening book identifies factors that impede the success of women in STEM professions and demonstrates the negative impact of sexual harassment on women’s physical health, mental health, and job performance. Focusing specifically on the narratives of women in higher education, the authors illuminate the structural and systemic barriers facing women working as graduate students, faculty, and administrators. Drawing on insights from the #metoo and #timesup movements as well as the Brett Kavanaugh Senate hearings, this book:
Provides real-life narratives of women from diverse cultural backgrounds and gender identities struggling in unhealthy workplace environments
Validates women working in STEM fields who feel isolated in workplaces of hostility, marginalization, and invalidation
Celebrates the achievements of women who negotiate and achieve success amid workplace hostilities
Recommends specific practices women can engage and employers can apply to ensure women’s safety and career prosperity"
Schlagwörter:#MeToo; academia; MINT; sexual harassment; STEM; woman scientist
CEWS Kategorie:Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Monographie
A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing and Natural Sciences : How to Measure it, How to Reduce it? - Gender Gap in Science project: Final report
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Geschlechterverhältnis, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Ethos and symbolic violence among women of science: An empirical study
Autor/in:
Cerroni, Andrea; Simonella, Zenia
Quelle: Social Science Information, 51 (2012) 2, S 165–182
Inhalt: While scientific challenges raise relevant debates about the ethics of science, the scientific ethos, shattered by post-Mertonian studies, has received neither due attention nor further conceptualizations in view of the transition to knowledge society. On the contrary, in our investigation of Italian women scientists, it appears to have survived as a reference for scientists, even if the context has changed. Indeed, the ethos of scientists is no longer conceivable as exclusive, but is instead seen as open and dynamic in interaction with other symbolic references. Therefore, instead of scientific ethos, it is preferable to speak of scientific habit, including the individual symbolic universe and the social practices linked to the scientific role. In so doing, other habits come into focus and interact. In particular, we investigated the interaction between the scientific habit and the gender habit. We argue for a conflict between two such habits and for the existence of a symbolic violence suffered by women scientists. Lastly, a new dimension of the scientific ethos is defined which is not included in the Mertonian definition: a scientific responsibility among scientists in society. Such a picture could shape a new perspective of re-gendering science in society from the standpoint of women's experience as scientists in the knowledge society.
Schlagwörter:academic culture; female scientist; Frauen in der Wissenschaft; Frauen in Führungspositionen; Normen; norms; Wissenschaftlerin; Wissenschaftskultur; Wissenschaftsverständnis; women in science
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Innenansichten : Studentinnen und Wissenschaftlerinnen an der Universität
Titelübersetzung:Internal views : female students and femal scientists at university
Herausgeber/in:
Färber, Christine
Quelle: Berlin: Trafo Verl. Weist (Innenansichten : Schriftenreihe der Frauenbeauftragten der Freien Universität Berlin, Bd. 1), 1994. 149 S.
Inhalt: Es werden die Ansichten der befragten Frauen, ihre Probleme und Bedürfnisse, aber zugleich auch eine Ansicht des Inneren einer Universität dargestellt. Der Sammelband enthält folgende Einzelbeiträge: 1) Innenansichten; 2) Zur Diskriminierung von Frauen in Prüfungssituationen; 3) Wenn Schokolade die einzige Schwäche ist. Bewerbungstraining für Examenskandidatinnen und Hochschulabsolventinnen; 4) Studienabbruchverhalten von Frauen und Männern an der Freien Universität; 5) "Also tut mir leid, ick hab'n Kind". Zur Situation von Studierenden und Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern mit Kindern an der Freien Universität; 6) Ergebnisse aus der qualitativen Befragung von Studentinnen über die Auswirkungen von sexueller Belästigung von Dozenten; 7) Rahmenbedingungen und Zeitmanagement von Frauen im Kontext ihrer akademischen Qualifizierung; 8) Von Antrag... zu Antrag. Zur Situation von Promotionsstipendiatinnen; 9) Frausein zum Programm machen. Selbstansichten nebenamtlich tätiger Frauenbeauftragter an der FU Berlin. (PHF/Ma.).