Quelle: Gender Work Organ (Gender, Work & Organization), 26 (2019) 4, S 448–462
Inhalt: This article examines the rise in precarious academic employment in Ireland as an outcome of the higher education restructuring following OECD (Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development), government initiatives and post‐crisis austerity. Presenting the narratives of academic women at different career stages, we claim that a focus on care sheds new light on the debate on precarity. A more complete understanding of precarity should take account not only of the contractual security but also affective relational security in the lives of employees. The intersectionality of paid work and care work lives was a dominant theme in our interviews among academic women. In a globalized academic market, premised on the care‐free masculinized ideals of competitive performance, 24/7 work and geographical mobility, women who opt out of these norms, suffer labour‐led contractual precarity and are over‐represented in part‐time and fixed‐term positions. Women who comply with these organizational commands need to peripheralize their relational lives and experience care‐led affective precarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Excellent and gender equal? : Academic motherhood and ‘gender blindness' in Norwegian academia
Autor/in:
Thun, Cecilie
Quelle: Gender Work Organ (Gender, Work & Organization), 27 (2019) 2, S 166–180
Inhalt: This article explores Norwegian female academics' experiences with academic motherhood in an organizational perspective. A main finding is that academia as an organization is greedy, uncertain, and has ‘blind spots' that reveal gender bias related to gender and parental status, especially mothers. By analysing the link between gendered organization of work and the legitimatizing of gender inequality, the article reveals ‘gender blindness' in the academic organization concerning gender and parental status. The article concludes that changes in academia — in line with academic capitalism — may indicate that the Norwegian model of work–life balance is under pressure. This article suggests that the organizational conditions for academic motherhood are important factors in order to understand the persistence of gender inequality.
Informality, emotion and gendered career paths: The hidden toll of maternity leave on female academics and researchers
Autor/in:
Maxwell, Nicola; Connolly, Linda; Ní Laoire, Caitríona
Quelle: Gend Work Organ (Gender, Work and Organization), (2018)
Inhalt: While the negative impact of child‐raising and caring on women's career progression in academia is well‐established, less is known about the role of academic women's lived experiences of maternity leave as an institutional practice. This article presents the findings of a qualitative study of the lived experiences of female academics and researchers in an Irish university. The analysis intrinsically links organizational structures and problems with the lived and felt dimensions of work. The findings point to the need for better structural accommodations for maternity leave which address the relationship between caring and career disadvantage within academia. The article adds to existing literature on the intersection of motherhood and academia by unpicking the specific role of maternity leave as both a lived experience and an institutional practice that can reinforce gender inequalities in academia.
Die Vereinbarkeit von Wissenschaft und Familie in Deutschland : Bestandsaufnahme aus Sicht von Hochschulen und Nachwuchsforschenden
Autor/in:
Krempkow, René; Sembritzki, Thomas
Quelle: Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung, 39 (2017) 2, S 102–123
Inhalt: Der Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft und das Deutsche Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung (DZHW) führten im Jahr 2015 Erhebungen zur Personalentwicklung für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs durch, die einen Themenschwerpunkt zur Vereinbarkeit von Wissenschaft und Familie enthielten. Zunehmende Relevanz und wissenschaftspolitische Thematisierung kommen diesem Schwerpunkt aufgrund eines sich verstärkenden Wettbewerbs um die besten Nach - wuchsforschenden – auch mit Unternehmen der Privatwirtschaft – zu. Schwierigkeiten mit der Vereinbarkeit von Wissenschaft und Familie spielen bei Nachwuchsforschen - den eine deutlich stärkere Rolle als Grund für einen angestrebten Wechsel in die Wirtschaft als noch vor einigen Jahren. In der Privatwirtschaft bilden Maßnahmen zur Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf bereits eine der wichtigsten und erfolgreichsten Rekrutierungsstrategien. Mit diesem Beitrag wird erstmals eine bundesweite Bestands - aufnahme zu entsprechenden Maßnahmen und Angeboten aus der Perspektive sowohl von Wissenschaftseinrichtungen als auch von Nachwuchsforschenden vorgelegt. (Autorenreferat)
Schlagwörter:Familie; Hochschule; Nachwuchsforschende; Vereinbarkeit Familie und Beruf
Doing Neoliberalism on Campus : The Vulnerability of Gender Equality Mechanisms in Estonian Academia
Autor/in:
Aavik, Kadri
Quelle: GV/GR (Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research), 18 (2017) 1, S 130–153
Inhalt: This paper explores the construction of a gendered neoliberal rationality in post-socialist academic settings. Drawing on interviews conducted with key stakeholders in four major Estonian universities, I trace how three key gender equality policy measures are conceptualised – quotas, workplace flexibility, and the involvement of men in efforts towards gender equality. The findings suggest that Estonian academic stakeholders fill these key gender equality policy ideas with meanings that distort the original purpose of these solutions, and thereby render these policy ideas counter-productive as mechanisms designed to bring about change in gender relations. Instead, these conceptualisations serve the interests of the neoliberal university, enabling and reinforcing the atomisation and exploitation of academic labourers, particularly women. Collectively, these articulations constitute, along with other practices, the ‘doing of neoliberalism’ in post-socialist university settings. Academic stakeholders do not (just) reflect an already established totalising neoliberal framework, but in fact discursively (and materially) create and reproduce what we have come to understand and refer to as ‘neoliberalism’ in academia. This has implications for devising and implementing gender equality policies in higher education in the post-socialist region, as the solutions applied elsewhere in Europe may not work in the same way in Central-Eastern Europe.
Schlagwörter:academia; academic stakeholders; affirmative action; Estland; Estonia; familienfreundliche Hochschule; feminized university; Frauen in der Wissenschaft; gender bias; gender equality policy; neoliberalism; post-socialism; Quote; racial bias; workplace felixibility
CEWS Kategorie:Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf, Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Quelle: Review of Educational Research, 87 (2017) 1, S 204–239
Inhalt: This article critically reviews recent literature on the relationship between family formation and academic-career progression, emphasizing obstacles women face seeking a tenured position and beyond. Evidence indicates that the pipeline model is dominated by “ideal worker” norms. These norms impose rigid, tightly coupled, sequential, time-bound requirements on aspiring academics, making the raising of young children and advancing an academic career incompatible. Studies indicate that women with PhDs and young children are disproportionately more likely to leak out of the tenure-track pipeline. Lack of family friendliness is one of the chief reasons why women opt out of tenure-track careers. One way to increase the proportion of tenured women is to adapt the pipeline model by bolstering institutional work–family policies and providing child care centers. Departmental leaders can ensure that making use of work–family policies does not negatively affect tenure decisions. Collecting longitudinal data to evaluate how well policies are working is critical.
Schlagwörter:academic labor markets; faculty; family; gender equity; research productivity; tenure and promotion; work–family policies
CEWS Kategorie:Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf, Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Understanding gender inequality and the role of the work/family interface in contemporary academia : An introduction
Autor/in:
Dubois-Shaik, Farah; Fusulier, Bernard
Quelle: European Educational Research Journal, 16 (2017) 2-3, S 99–105
Inhalt: This double special issue gathers a series of nuanced critically conceptual and case-study research showing that in the contemporary European context, despite regional differences in gender regimes, political and economic demands and organizational cultures, work/life balance policies and their translation into practice remains a highly ambiguous issue. Although work/life balance policies have undoubtedly entered the university institutional spaces, they are deterred by opposing institutional policy logics and particularly ‘greedy’ logics of the organizing of work that still aligns to outdated work-exclusive masculine organizational culture (outdated because men too are suffering the effects, and because the academic environment is feminized). Moreover, there are lingering gender stereotypes around the value and attribution of home and work duties, which are having a significant impact upon women’s professional and private spheres and experiences in academic work. The gathered research shows how university institutions are still quite far from having addressed the core issues that undermine women’s career advancement and their possibilities to access to academic membership and leadership, still obliging them (and their male counterparts) to align with a work and membership (selection and progression) logic and organization that does not take into consideration parenthood, family and personal spheres of life.
The Avoidance of Bias Against Caregiving : The Case of Academic Faculty
Autor/in:
Drago, Robert; Colbeck, Carol L.; Stauffer, Kai Dawn; Pirretti, Amy; Burkum, Kurt; Fazioli, Jennifer; Lazzaro, Gabriela; Habasevich, Tara
Quelle: American Behavioral Scientist, 49 (2016) 9, S 1222–1247
Inhalt: The authors analyze bias avoidance behaviors, whereby employees respond to biases against caregiving in the workplace by strategically minimizing or hiding family commitments. They divide bias avoidance behaviors into productive types that improve work performance and unproductive types that are inefficient. Original survey data from 4,188 chemistry and English faculty in 507 U.S. colleges and universities suggest both types of bias avoidance are relatively common and women more often report both types of behavior. Regression analyses show few disciplinary differences, find supportive supervisors associated with reductions in reports of bias avoidance, suggest low levels of bias avoidance for women are linked to institutional gender equity, and support the possibility that there are subjective components to bias avoidance behaviors.
Schlagwörter:academic faculty; bias avoidance; Care; chemistry; english studies; family; gender equity; norms; work
CEWS Kategorie:Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf, Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf