Do men and women-economists choose the same research fields? : evidence from top-50 departments
Titelübersetzung:Wählen männliche und weibliche Ökonomen dieselben Forschungsgebiete? Ergebnisse aus 50 führenden Fachbereichen
Autor/in:
Dolado, Juan Jose; Felgueroso, Florentino; Almunia, Miguel
Quelle: Bonn (Discussion Paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH, No. 1859), 2005. 41 S.
Inhalt: "This paper describes the gender distribution of research fields chosen by the faculty members in the top fifty Economics departments, according to the rankings available on the Econphd.net website. We document that women are unevenly distributed across fields and test some behavioral implications from theories underlying such disparities. Our main findings are that the probability that a woman chooses a given field is positively related to the share of women in that field (path-dependence), and that the share of women in a field at a given department increases with the sizes of the department and field, while it decreases with their average quality. However, these patterns seem to be changing for younger female faculty members. Further, by using Ph.D. cohorts, we document how gender segregation across fields has evolved over the last four decades." (author's abstract)
CEWS Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Monographie
Special issue on the changing academic workplace : comparative perspectives
Titelübersetzung:Sonderausgabe zum Wandel der Arbeit im Hochschulbereich
Autor/in:
Altbach, Philip G.; Chait, Richard; Enders, Jürgen; Shattock, Micael; Chevaillier, Thierry; Weert, Egbert de; Moscati, Roberto; Mora, Jose-Gines; Askling, Berit; Honan, James P.; Teferra, Damtew
Quelle: Higher education : the international journal of higher education and educational planning, Vol. 41 (2001) No. 1-2, S. 1-219
Inhalt: Das Schwerpunktheft zum Wandel der Arbeit und der Arbeitsbedingungen für Hochschullehrer enthält Beiträge zur Situation in Deutschland, Großbritannien, Frankreich, Italien, Spanien, Schweden und den USA. Ein abschließender Artikel geht auf internationale Wirklichkeit und Herausforderungen im Hinblick auf akademische Freiheit ein. (IAB)
Quelle: Science Scope, Vol. 24 (2001) No. 8, S. 49-51
Inhalt: "This article points out the challenges female scientists have in obtaining recognition and discusses why the percentage of women in science is low; explains how teachers can help." (author's abstract)
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
The temporal dimension of gender inequality in academia
Titelübersetzung:Die zeitliche Dimension der Frauenbenachteiligung in akademischen Berufen
Autor/in:
Toren, Nina
Quelle: Higher education : the international journal of higher education and educational planning, Vol. 25 (1993) No. 4, S. 439-455
Inhalt: Die zeitliche Dimension von akademischen Berufsverläufen wird in diesem Beitrag als Erklärungsansatz für die Ungleichheit zwischen den Geschlechtern beim beruflichen Aufstieg untersucht. In diesem Konzept wird die Aufmerksamkeit von der Person auf das organisatorische Umfeld gelenkt, und die bei Frauen erwartete längere Zeitspanne zwischen den einzelnen Karriereschritten wird als Bestandteil der Strukturen von akademischen Institutionen und der akademischen Kultur angesehen. Die Autorin untermauert ihre Analyse mit empirischen Ergebnissen über die israelischen Universitäten und Beispielen von ähnlichen Strukturen in amerikanischen und europäischen Hochschulen. (IAB)
Inhalt: "This paper examines gender inequality in academic careers by applying Merton's concept of 'socially expected durations' (SEDs). Women's relatively slower advancement along the academic hierarchy has been traditionally attributed to their traits and constraints. The concept of SED shifts attention from the individual to the organizational level, and the actual and expected augmented durations between promotions for women are viewed as part of the structural arrangements of academic institutions and their culture. It is argued that because of the distinct characteristics of academic careers, time-in-rank is an important dimension distinguishing among otherwise very uniform occupational roles and career patterns. The implications of conceptualizing career discrepancies in terms of socially expected durations are discussed." (author's abstract, IAB-Doku)
CEWS Kategorie:Geschlechterverhältnis, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
The origins of sex differences in science
Autor/in:
Long, J. Scott
Quelle: Social forces : an international journal of social research associated with the Southern Sociological Society, Vol. 68 (1990) No. 4, S. 1297-1315
Inhalt: "The sociology of science has clearly established the presence of sex differences in scientific productivity and position. This article examines the processes leading to the lower productivity of female scientists at the completion of their doctoral training. Collaboration with the mentor is found to be the most important factor affecting productivity. For females, opportunities for collaboration are significantly decreased by having young children. As a consequence, the presence of young children has an adverse, indirect effect on the productivity of female scientists during graduate study. This effect does not exist for males. In addition to differences in the process of collaboration, many small differences that disadvantage women and advantage men are found in the levels of resources affecting productivity and in the mechanisms by which resources are translated into productivity. The concentration of small disadvantages provides a further explanation of sex differences in productivity at the start of the career. Since early advantages and disadvantages have been found to accumulate, this article provides an essential first step in understanding sex differences in scientific productivity and position that emerge during the career." (author's abstract)
CEWS Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Geschlechterverhältnis, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Black women professor - white university
Autor/in:
McKay, Nellie
Quelle: Women's studies international forum, Vol. 6 (1983) No. 2, S. 143-147
Inhalt: "Black people, as a group, have been the victims of exclusion in almost all areas of the dominant American cultural life. Black women, in particular, have suffered because of race and sex. The result of these oppressions has been a general cultural silence and invisibility of all black people. Challenges to the racial status quo reached momentous dimensions in the 1960s, the era of the black revolution, and touched all areas of the national life in the U.S.A. However, when the smoke cleared, black women discovered that despite their efforts in the struggle, few of them reaped rewards. In the wake of the women's liberation movement that followed, the general consensus among women of color was that black meant black men and women meant white women. This is an unsatisfactory state of affairs, and one which black women have vowed to fight against. The university is one of the arenas for this confrontation. This paper looks at the experiences of one black woman in a prestigious Midwestern university and documents the nature of her experiences as a double minority. She voices the opinion that black women intend to struggle on to their rightful places in the academy. They can't go back, and they aim to stay." (author's abstract)