CEWS Kategorie:Geschlechterverhältnis, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Monographie
Gender and academic careers in cross-national perspective : preliminary results from a WEU survey in Poland and Germany
Autor/in:
Majcher, Agnieszka
Quelle: Institut für Politikwissenschaft, FB 06 Erziehungswissenschaft und Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Münster; Münster (Training paper / Women in European Universities, Research and Training Network), 2004. 50 S.
Inhalt: "This paper presents preliminary findings from a WEU international survey of the academic men and women in Poland and Germany. In this paper we focus on selected aspects of academic careers linked to tensions that may arise from different and conflicting roles men and women play in professional and private spheres. We attempted to propose an explanatory framework that would allow us to explain cross-national differences between career patterns in both countries as well as the extend of gender differences within the countries. This explanatory framework is linked to different university cultures and organizational aspects academic careers as well as different contexts and histories of higher education feminization processes. In Germany they would be based on negative or discriminatory integration of women into German academia and in Poland the integration took through 'loyalty contract' with all positive and negative consequences (e.g. acceptance of patriarchal and paternalistic academic culture and resistance to the feminist discourse). We found that barriers and hindrances related to the problems with reconciliation between work and family do not play a major role in career outcomes of academic women neither in Poland nor in Germany but they still affect career strategies in Germany. Polish academia provides also much more room for reconciliation of work and family than German one and this seems to be even more crucial than availability or quality of childcare. Generally academic careers in Germany put more pressures on both men and women than in Poland. Moreover these pressures seem to have less to do with the workload but rather organization of academic careers." (author's abstract)
CEWS Kategorie:Geschlechterverhältnis, Naturwissenschaft und Technik
Dokumenttyp:Monographie
Female engineering faculty at U.S. institutions : a data profile
Herausgeber/in:
National Research Council -NRC- Committee on Women in Science and Engineering -CWSE-
Quelle: National Research Council -NRC- Committee on Women in Science and Engineering -CWSE-; Washington, 2001. 56 S.
Inhalt: Several federal agencies asked the National Research Council to document the participation of women engineers in academic institutions within the United States by creating a directory that can be used to announce programs and other formal communications. In response, the NRC compiled a list of approximately 1,300 women faculty in engineering departments in the United States and conducted a survey to gather additional information about their status and careers. This resulting databook provides information on the race/ethnicity, degrees held, employment history, primary work activities, and tenure status of the nearly 800 women faculty members who completed the survey. In addition, it summarizes their responses to questions about experiences with mentoring, factors contributing to career decisions, and satisfaction with current employment.
Der lautlose Aufbruch : Frauen in der Wissenschaft
Titelübersetzung:The silent start : women in science
Autor/in:
Feyl, Renate
Quelle: Darmstadt: Luchterhand (Sammlung Luchterhand, 465), 1983. 187 S.
Inhalt: In elf essayistischen Porträts, von der Biologin Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) bis zu Lise Meitner (1878-1968), zeichnet die Autorin den Weg der Frauen in die Wissenschaft nach, "durch ein Dickicht von Intoleranz und Mißachtung, Beschränkung und Spott". "Für Frauen, wenn sie nicht zur Oberschicht gehören und in Nonnenklöstern erzogen werden, bleibt wissenschaftliche Bildung bis Anfang unseres Jahrhunderts eine private Daseinslust. Die wenigen weiblichen Ausnahmen, die es dennoch in den Wissenschaften zu Ruhm brachten, gelten zu ihrer Zeit nicht etwa als Vorboten eines allmählichen Erwachens der Frauen aus ihrem geistigen Dämmerzustand, sondern werden als vereinzelte Phänomene gedeutet, mystifiziert und ins Reich der Transzendenz verwiesen." (MH2)