Gender, Power and Higher Education in a Globalised World
Herausgeber/in:
O'Connor, Pat; White, Kate
Quelle: Cham: Springer International Publishing; Imprint Palgrave Macmillan (Springer eBook Collection), 2021, 1.0. 226 S
Inhalt: This book examines persistent gender inequality in higher education, and asks what is preventing change from occurring. The editors and contributors argue that organizational resistance to gender equality is the key explanation; reflected in the endorsement of discourses such as excellence, choice, distorted intersectionality, revitalized biological essentialism and gender neutrality. These discourses implicitly and explicitly depict the status quo as appropriate, reasonable and fair: ultimately impeding efforts and attempts to promote gender equality. Drawing on research from around the world, this book explores the limits and possibilities of challenging these harmful discourses, focusing on the state and universities themselves as levers for change. It stresses the importance of institutional transformation, the vital contribution of feminist activists and the importance of women’s deceptively ‘small victories’ in the academy
The volume is a must-read for anyone interested in fairness and justice around gender". Professor Patricia Yancey Martin, Florida State University, USA
This book examines persistent gender inequality in higher education, and asks what is preventing change from occurring. The editors and contributors argue that organizational resistance to gender equality is the key explanation; reflected in the endorsement of discourses such as excellence, choice, distorted intersectionality, revitalized biological essentialism and gender neutrality. These discourses implicitly and explicitly depict the status quo as appropriate, reasonable and fair: ultimately impeding attempts to promote gender equality. Drawing on research from around the world, this book explores the limits and possibilities of challenging these misleading discourses, focusing on the state and universities themselves as levers for change. It stresses the importance of institutional transformation, the vital contribution of feminist activists and the importance of women’s deceptively ‘small victories’ in the academy.
Pat O’Connor is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Limerick, Ireland, and Visiting Professor at the Geary Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland. She is a sociologist with a focus on gender equality in higher education institutions: particularly leadership, excellence, micropolitics, gender-based violence, equality related interventions and women’s academic careers. Kate White is Adjunct Associate Professor at Federation University Australia and Director of the Women in Higher Education Management Network. Her research focuses on gender equality and leadership in higher education, women’s academic careers and women in science.
Chancengleichheit in Wissenschaft und Forschung : 25. Fortschreibung des Datenmaterials (2019/2020) zu Frauen in Hochschulen und außerhochschulischen Forschungseinrichtungen
Chancengleichheit in Wissenschaft und Forschung : 24. Fortschreibung des Datenmaterials (2018/2019) zu Frauen in Hochschulen und außerhochschulischen Forschungseinrichtungen
Neoliberalism, gender and education work - (Paperback, forthcoming 30.6.2020)
Herausgeber/in:
Robert, Sarah A.; Pitzer, Heidi; Muñoz García, Ana Luisa; Pitzer, Heidi K.
Quelle: London: Routledge; Taylor & Francis, 2020.
Inhalt: How does neoliberalism in the education field shape who teachers are and what they can be? What are the effects of neoliberal logic on students? How is gender at the core of what it means to teach and learn in neoliberal educational institutions? Neoliberalism, Gender and Education Work examines the everyday labour of educating in a variety of contexts in order to answer these questions in new and productive ways. Neoliberal ideals of standardisation, accountability and entrepreneurialism are having undeniable effects on how we define teaching and learning. Gender is central to these definitions, with care work and other forms of affective labour simultaneously implicated in standards of teacher quality and undervalued in metrics of assessment. Gathering research from across four continents and education settings ranging from elementary school to higher education, to popular social movements, the methodologically diverse case studies in this book offer insight into how teachers and students negotiate the intertwined logics of neoliberalism and gender. Beyond an indictment of contemporary institutions, Neoliberalism, Gender and Education Work provides inspiration with its documentation of the creative practices and selfhoods emerging in the "cracks" of the neoliberal ideological apparatus.
CEWS Kategorie:Bildung und Erziehung, Wissenschaftspolitik, Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Gender, Science and Innovation : New perspectives
Herausgeber/in:
Smith, Helen Lawton; Henry, Colette; Etzkowitz, Henry; Poulovassilis, Alexandra
Quelle: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020.
Inhalt: Gender, Science and Innovation explores the contemporary challenges facing women scientists in academia and develops effective strategies to improve gender equality. Addressing an important gap in current knowledge, chapters offer a range of international perspectives from diverse contexts, countries and institutional settings. This book is an essential contribution to the literature for academics, researchers and policy makers concerned with improving gender equality in academia and seeking to learn from the experiences of others.
Schlagwörter:ADVANCE; Frauen in der Wissenschaft; Geschlechterverhältnis; geschlechtsspezifische Diskriminierung; Gleichstellungsmaßnahmen; Gleichstellungspolitik; Industrieforschung; Institution; Karriere; leaky pipeline; Medizin; Mentoring; Networking; Netzwerk; Norwegen; Technologie; USA
CEWS Kategorie:Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis, Gleichstellungspolitik
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Prekäre Gleichstellung : Geschlechtergerechtigkeit, soziale Ungleichheit und unsichere Arbeitsverhältnisse in der Wissenschaft
Inhalt: Der vorliegende Band nimmt Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Gleichstellungspolitiken, strukturellen Diskriminierungsformen und prekären Arbeitsverhältnissen in der neoliberalen Hochschule in den Blick.
Die Arbeits- und Lebenssituation von Wissenschaftler_innen hat sich in den vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnten tief greifend verändert. Die fortschreitende Ökonomisierung von Hochschulen und anderen Wissenschaftsorganisationen hat zu einer Zuspitzung von Wettbewerb und Konkurrenz geführt, die sich auch auf die Arbeits- und Wissenschaftskultur auswirkt. Insbesondere der akademische Mittelbau ist von einer verschärften Prekarisierung wissenschaftlicher Arbeitsverhältnisse und Laufbahnen betroffen. Zeitgleich lässt sich eine verstärkte Institutionalisierung von Gleichstellungs- und Diversitypolitiken in der Wissenschaft beobachten. Doch während an den hiesigen Universitäten heute mehr Frauen als je zuvor studieren, promovieren und wissenschaftliche Laufbahnen einschlagen, wirken strukturelle gruppenbezogene Benachteiligungen und Diskriminierungsformen fort. Die Ökonomisierung und Prekarisierung wissenschaftlicher Arbeit sowie die Thematisierung von Geschlechterungleichheit, institutionellem Rassismus und sozialer Selektivität in der Wissenschaft haben in den vergangenen Jahren als Einzelphänomene Aufmerksamkeit erfahren, wurden bislang jedoch nur selten systematisch in Bezug zueinander untersucht.
Quelle: Baden-Baden: Nomos (Schriften zur Gleichstellung der Frau, 45), 2018. 541 Seiten
Inhalt: Warum gibt es so wenige Juraprofessorinnen? Frauen haben in der Rechtswissenschaft noch schlechtere Chancen als in anderen Fächern. Schreckt die konservative Fachkultur? Bevorzugen Frauen die Sicherheit in Justiz und Verwaltung? Welche Maßnahmen zur Erhöhung des Frauenanteils können getroffen werden?
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Hochschulen, Geschlechterverhältnis, Berufungsverfahren
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
The changing role of women in higher education : Academic and leadership issues
Herausgeber/in:
Eggins, Heather
Quelle: Cham: Springer Verlag (The changing academic profession in international comparative perspective, 17), 2017. xxviii, 310 S
Inhalt: This book sets out to examine the changing role of women in higher education with an emphasis on academic and leadership issues. The scope of the book is international, with a wide range of contributors, whose expertise spans sociology, social science, economics, politics, public policy and linguistic studies, all of whom have a major interest in global education. The volume examines the ways in which the leadership role and academic roles of women in higher education are changing in the twenty first century, offering an up-to-date policy discussion of this area. It is in some sense a sequel to the earlier volume by the same Editor, Women as Leaders and Managers in Higher Education, but with very different emphases. The pressures now are to respond to the demands of the technological age and to those of the global economy. Today there are more highly qualified and experienced female academics, and more expectation of their gaining the highest posts. Challenges still remain, particularly in terms of the top posts, and in equal pay. The discussion of global policy issues affecting the role of women in higher education is combined with country case studies, several of which are comparative. Together they examine and unpack the particular situations of women in a wide range of higher education systems, from Brazil to the US to Europe to Africa and the Far East, noting the shift towards more flexibility, more personal choice and a greater acceptance by society of their abilities. This volume is a useful and influential addition to published work in this area, and is aimed at the intelligent general reader as well as the scholar interested in this topic.
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Hochschulen, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Gleichstellungspolitik und Geschlechterforschung : Veränderte Governance und Geschlechterarrangements in der Wissenschaft
Herausgeber/in:
Löther, Andrea; Riegraf, Birgit
Quelle: Leverkusen: Budrich, Barbara (cews.Beiträge Frauen in Wissenschaft und Forschung, 8), 2017. 370 Seiten
Inhalt: Umstrukturierungen führen in den letzten Jahren zu veränderten Anforderungen an Wissenschaftsorganisationen und Gleichstellungspolitiken. Neue Reputations- und Erfolgskriterien, veränderte Standards für wissenschaftliche Tätigkeiten und Evaluationssysteme werden implementiert. Gleichstellungsvorgaben spielen in den Wettbewerb um materielle und symbolische Ressourcen hinein. Die Beiträge nehmen den Zusammenhang von veränderter Governance und Gleichstellung in der Wissenschaft aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven in den Blick.