Inhalt: Gender inequalities in science persist across the EU member states with the underrepresentation of women in the top echelons of scientific hierarchies. The EU policies in the past decades tried to address this issue with a mix of policies following social and economic rationales. The chapter identifies three policy challenges that still persist today: the underrepresentation of women in top positions in science and in decision-making bodies, gender pay gap as well as the absence of gender in research content. The analysis shows that the complexities of actors, the importance of institutional entrepreneurs , networks and advocacy groups have led to a more non-linear policy learning from ‘fixing the women’ to ‘fixing the institutions’ approaches. The chapter points out how the economic rationale has increasingly taken over the social equality rationale regarding gender in research policies. The increased rationalization of research organizations allows to implement gender policies and thus - to increase their legitimacy, while a lot of implementation stays at the ideational level.
Schlagwörter:EU; EU-Politik; Forschungspolitik; Führungsposition; Gender in der Forschung; Geschlechterungleichheit; Gleichstellungspolitik; Hochschulleitung; internationaler Vergleich; Legitimation; Organisationswandel; Unterrepräsentanz; Wissenschaft
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Gleichstellungspolitik
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerksbeitrag