“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)
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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.
Schlagwörter:academic environment; Brasilien; Brazil; harassment; Homophobie; homosexual; Professor*in; sexist attitude; social norm; survey; violence
CEWS Kategorie:Diversity, Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Are we failing female and racialized academics? A Canadian national survey examining the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on tenure and tenure‐track faculty
Autor/in:
Davis, Jennifer C.; Li, Eric Ping Hung; Butterfield, Mary Stewart; DiLabio, Gino A.; Sangunthanam, Nithi; Marcolin, Barbara
Quelle: Gend Work Organ (Gender, Work and Organization), (2022)
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Inhalt: The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused the abrupt curtailment of on-campus research activities that amplified impacts experienced by female and racialized faculty. In this mixed-method study, we systematically and strategically unpack the impact of the shift of academic work environments to remote settings on tenured and tenure-track faculty in Canada. Our quantitative analysis demonstrated that female and racialized faculty experienced higher levels of stress, social isolation and lower well-being. Fewer women faculty felt support for health and wellness. Our qualitative data highlighted substantial gender inequities reported by female faculty such as increased caregiving burden that affected their research productivity. The most pronounced impacts were felt among pre-tenured female faculty. The present study urges university administration to take further action to support female and racialized faculty through substantial organizational change and reform. Given the disproportionate toll that female and racialized faculty experienced, we suggest a novel approach that include three dimensions of change: (1) establishing quantitative metrics to assess and evaluate pandemic-induced impact on research productivity, health and well-being, (2) coordinating collaborative responses with faculty unions across the nation to mitigate systemic inequities, and (3) strategically implementing a storytelling approach to amplify the experiences of marginalized populations such as women or racialized faculty and include those experiences as part of recommendations for change.
Schlagwörter:academic work; Befragung; Canada; COVID-19; faculty; Gender; Interview; Kanada; mixed methods; race; Vereinbarkeit Beruf-Familie; wissenschaftliche Arbeit; wissenschaftliche Karriere
CEWS Kategorie:Diversity, Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Circling the divide: Gendered invisibility, precarity, and professional service work in a UK business school
Autor/in:
Seymour, Kate
Quelle: Gend Work Organ (Gender, Work and Organization), (2022)
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Inhalt: Within UK business schools, there are large numbers of female and feminized white-collar professional service (PS) employees in disproportionately low-paid, low-status roles, but surprisingly, they are largely invisible within the literature on sexism and gender inequalities in academia. This paper conceptualizes PS experiences by examining how forms of gendered invisibility affect professional staff working in the hybrid “third” space between academic and administrative realms. I develop a conceptual analysis of invisibility—of invisible work and as invisible worker—arising from the performance of professional and academic work. This allows me to analyze and distinguish forms of what I call service, professional and professional-academic housework, demonstrating how these are thoroughly imbricated in dominant patriarchal cultural ideologies of gender. In developing this schema, I draw self-reflexively on my own experiences of “circling the divide” within a UK business school, developing a rich, multi-perspectival account of the ways visibility and invisibility were experienced in the role of a particular third space professional and “academic-in-waiting.” This paper therefore contributes a systematic conceptualization of gendered invisible housework performed by PS staff within a politicized third space of UK business schools. It also brings often hidden PS “academics-in-waiting” into the literature on feminized precarity in the academy.
Schlagwörter:academic housework; business school; gender inequality; invisibility; MTV; professional service; professional staff; sexism; UK; Verwaltung
CEWS Kategorie:Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
International migration of researchers and gender imbalance in academia—the case of Norway
Autor/in:
Wendt, Kaja; Gunnes, Hebe; Aksnes, Dag W.
Quelle: Scientometrics (Scientometrics), 127 (2022) 12, S 7575–7591
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Inhalt: Female representation among students and graduates in higher education is growing internationally. This is a promising trend for achieving gender balance in top positions in academia. But there is still a long way to go, as women accounted for 26 per cent in top positions at European higher education institutions in 2018. In this article, we examine the influence of international recruitment of researchers on the gender balance—or the lack of gender balance—in Norwegian academia. We draw on data from the Norwegian Register of Research personnel, linked with population statistics from Statistics Norway. These data show that 38 per cent of the researchers at Norwegian higher education institutions in 2018 were born abroad. The share of foreign full professors has increased from 16 per cent in 2001 to 27 per cent in 2018, while for postdocs there has been an increase from 31 to 69 per cent. In terms of overall gender composition, a higher percentage of the foreign-born researchers are male compared with the native Norwegians. The incidence of international recruitment differs significantly across academic fields and is particularly prevalent in engineering. This is also the field where the gender balance is most skewed generally. Taking these variables into account, we conclude that international migration is not among the factors contributing to the gender imbalance in Norwegian academia. In fact, international recruitment has contributed positively to the gender balance in Norway in the majority of the fields analysed.
Schlagwörter:academia; full professor; gender inequality; higher education; international academic mobility; Migration; Norway; Norwegen; recruitment; Rekrutierung
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
„Wenn’s nirgendwo so richtig stimmt“ – Einblicke in qualitative Forschung zu Hochschulkarrieren und Elternschaft unter Corona-Bedingungen
Autor/in:
Haag, Hanna
Quelle: FemPol (Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft), 31 (2022) 2, S 132–136
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Inhalt: Wissenschaftskarrieren sind allgemeinhin von einem hohen Selektionsdruck gekennzeichnet (Reuter et al. 2020). In dem vorliegenden Beitrag wird insbesondere die Frage nach der (Un)-Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf mit Blick auf die pandemische Lage fokussiert und aufgezeigt, wie diese selbige verstärkt.
Schlagwörter:COVID-19; Elternschaft; Hochschulforschung; Hochschulkarriere; Interview; Qualitative Forschung; Vereinbarkeit Beruf-Familie; wissenschaftliche Karriere
CEWS Kategorie:Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf, Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Foreign women in academia : Double‐strangers between productivity, marginalization and resistance
Autor/in:
Strauβ, Anke; Boncori, Ilaria
Quelle: Gender Work Organ (Gender, Work & Organization), 17 (2020) 2, 867 S
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Inhalt: This article examines the professional experience of foreign women academics working across geographic boundaries in today's neoliberal academia characterized by liquidity. Framed within an intersectional perspective, we use the concept of the ‘double‐stranger' to examine data stemming from 20 in‐depth semi‐structured interviews conducted with scholars at different stages of their career in the social sciences. This article advances understandings of academic careers theoretically by identifying a temporal and hierarchical dynamic in the intersection of two categories of difference (gender and foreignness) that constitute a position of simultaneous belonging and non‐belonging for foreign women academics; and empirically through a qualitative investigation that explores three areas in which academic professional experiences are mobilized for double‐strangers: (i) transnational career moves; (ii) productivity and performance in today's neoliberal academia; and (iii) self‐induced estrangement as a form of resistance.
Schlagwörter:Gender; Geschlecht; Hochschule; intersectionality; Intersektionalität; Interview; Nationalität; neoliberal university; qualitative Analyse; Sozialwissenschaft; Widerstand; Wissenschaftskarriere
CEWS Kategorie:Diversity, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Hochschulen, Migration und Migrantinnen, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Professorinnen im Spannungsverhältnis von Exzellenz und Chancengleichheit : Empirische Befunde aus einer qualitativen Interview-Studie
Autor/in:
Paulitz, Tanja; Braukmann, Stephanie
Quelle: Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung, 42 (2020) 4, S 30–48
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Inhalt: Der Beitrag fragt ausgehend vom jüngeren hochschulpolitischen Wandel, im Zuge dessen Chancengleichheit zu einem Bestandteil von Exzellenz wurde, nach der Arbeitssituation von Professorinnen an deutschen Universitäten. Damit wird jene Statusgruppe ins Zentrum der Betrachtung gerückt, die sich im System etabliert hat und gemeinhin dafürsteht, dass Chancengleichheit erreicht ist. Auf Basis einer laufenden qualitativen empirischen Untersuchung werden erste Befunde vorgelegt, wie dieses Verhältnis von Exzellenz und Chancengleichheit von Professorinnen erfahren wird, welche Zugänge es eröffnet, auf welche Barrieren die Professorinnen stoßen und welche Ambivalenzen sich hinsichtlich ihrer Position rekonstruieren lassen. Dabei wird die These entwickelt, dass sich die Partizipationschancen von Professorinnen in den Wettkämpfen um Exzellenz in geschlechtlich strukturierten Spielen um Anerkennung erweisen müssen.
Schlagwörter:Chancengleichheit; Drittmittel; Exzellenz; Forschungsförderung; Interview; Partizipation; Professorin
CEWS Kategorie:Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Professorinnen und Professoren in der akademischen Selbstverwaltung : Eine Rekonstruktion handlungsleitender Orientierungsrahmen
Autor/in:
Philipps, Axel; Johannsen, Johanna
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 48 (2020) 5-6, S 435–452
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Inhalt: Zu den zentralen Aufgaben einer Professur an deutschen Universitäten gehört neben Forschung und Lehre die Beteiligung an der akademischen Selbstverwaltung, wobei sich die Hochschulforschung vor allem auf die ersten beiden Berufsfelder konzentriert. Die wenigen Erkenntnisse zum Engagement in der Selbstverwaltung beziehen sich vorrangig auf veränderte organisationale Aspekte. Dieser Beitrag zeigt, wie mit Hilfe der praxeologischen Wissenssoziologie untersucht werden kann, in welchen Orientierungsrahmen das akademische Personal innerhalb der akademischen Selbstverwaltung agiert. Dazu wurden teilnarrative Interviews durchgeführt und mit der dokumentarischen Methode ausgewertet. Im Ergebnis unterscheiden wir zwischen den „Hochschulmanagenden“, „Zurückhaltenden“ und „Pflichtbewussten“, wobei insbesondere der Orientierungsrahmen der „Pflichtbewussten“ erklärt, warum sich Professorinnen und Professoren wiederkehrend in der akademischen Selbstverwaltung gewissenhaft engagieren, obwohl sie der Forschung und Lehre den Vorrang einräumen.
Schlagwörter:Habitus; Hochschulmanagement; managerial university; managerialism; Professor; Professorin; Selbstverwaltung; Wissenssoziologie
CEWS Kategorie:Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Hidden social exclusion in Indian academia : Gender, caste and conference participation
Autor/in:
Sabharwal, Nidhi S.; Henderson, Emily F.; Joseph, Roma Smart
Quelle: Gender and Education, 32 (2020) 1, S 27–42
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Inhalt: Conferences are key sites for the development of academic careers; however multiple studies have shown that conferences are exclusionary on the basis of gender and other axes of social disadvantage. This study focuses on India and as such also incorporates caste as an axis of privilege and disadvantage in relation to access to conferences. Conferences in this paper are framed within a broader professional development agenda, which is the way in which conferences are located in Indian higher education policy discourses, and a social exclusion perspective is taken as the analytical lens. The paper is based on data from a large-scale national study of social inequalities in higher education, which included quantitative analysis of administrative records and qualitative analysis of interviews with academics on their participation in conferences and professional development activities. Key findings include that participation in conferences is proportionally lower for women and scheduled caste academics than for men and upper-caste academics, and that access to conferences is embroiled in relational processes of social exclusion which operate in the academy, despite formal policies being in place. The article recommends further scrutiny of policy implementation and replication of this analysis across different country contexts.
Schlagwörter:Gender; Geschlechterverhältnis; Hochschule; India; Indien; Intersektionalität; Konferenz; soziale Herkunft
CEWS Kategorie:Hochschulen, Netzwerke und Organisationen, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Gendered management in Spanish universities : Functional segregation among vice-rectors
Autor/in:
Castaño, Cecilia; Vázquez-Cupeiro, Susana; Martínez-Cantos, José Luis
Quelle: Gender and Education, 31 (2019) 8, S 966–985
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Inhalt: The reorganisation of higher education according to the marketplace logic ? and framed within the process of Europeanisation and globalisation ? has run parallel to a significant rise in the number of women in senior management positions at Spanish universities. This would seem to be a step to more gender equality. However, the analysis of the situation used thus far, based on conventional indicators, may be harbouring a not-so-egalitarian reality. Our approach studies the gender distribution of vice-rectors according to assigned functions in all forty-eight Spanish public universities offering both graduate and postgraduate studies. It does so by creating a typology to exemplify gendered divisions of labour within those positions. The results confirm an uneven gender distribution: women, although mostly in charge of caregiving and housekeeping functions, are underrepresented across the board in areas where strategic power resides and the future of university is decided and where, eventually, gender norms could be changed.
Schlagwörter:Geschlechterungleichheit; Geschlechtervergleich; Hochschulleitung; Hochschulmanagement; Rektor; Rektorin; Segregation; Spanien
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaftspolitik, Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz