Grenze zwischen Berufs- und Privatleben im Wissenschaftsfeld : Eine Bourdieusche Perspektive
Autor/in:
Weiss, Silvana
Quelle: Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler, 2019.
Inhalt: Silvana Weiss untersucht in diesem Buch die Grenze zwischen Berufs- und Privatleben im Wissenschaftsfeld, wofür sie zwei Theoriestränge miteinander verbindet: Bourdieus Theorie der Praxis und klassische Grenzziehungstheorien. In zwei empirischen Studien beleuchtet sie den Zusammenhang zwischen den Spielregeln des Feldes, individuellen Grenzziehungspraktiken und Karrieren in der Wissenschaft. Es zeigt sich, dass Zeitinvestment und intrinsische Motivation mit jeder Qualifikationsstufe steigen und dass die Grenze zwischen Berufs- und Privatleben zunehmend verschwimmt. Dennoch gestalten nicht alle Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftlerinnen ihr Leben völlig entgrenzt, sondern es gibt durchaus vielfältige Grenzziehungspraktiken. Insgesamt geben die Befunde Anlass zur kritischen Betrachtung der Spielregeln im Wissenschaftsfeld.
Work–life balance for native and migrant scholars in German academia : Meanings and practices
Autor/in:
Gewinner, Irina
Quelle: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, (2019)
Inhalt: The purpose of this paper is to address notions and practices relating to work–life balance for native German scholars and researchers who have migrated from the former Soviet Union (FSU). Issues will be explored from a cultural perspective, identifying culturally based interpretations of work–life balance.
Schlagwörter:caregiving; culture-sensitive approach; Diversity; german academia; motherhood; native and migrant scholars; Vereinbarkeit; WissenschaflerIn; work-life balance
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf
Who cares? : Gleichstellungspolitisches Positionspapier zur aktuellen Pflegepolitik
Herausgeber/in:
Familie in der Hochschule e.V.
Quelle: Familie in der Hochschule e.V.; , 2019.
Inhalt: Mit diesem gleichstellungspolitischen Positionspapier wird der Blick auf die Bedingungen gelenkt, unter denen Pflege durch Angehörige auf informeller Basis in den Familien stattfindet. Die Mitgliedseinrichtungen des Netzwerks wollen damit für ein Thema öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit schaffen, dass bisher wenig Resonanz im politischen Raum erfährt.
“I Want to be Both, but Is that Possible?”: : Communicating Mother-Scholar Uncertainty During Doctoral Candidacy
Autor/in:
Abetz, Jenna S.
Quelle: Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 12 (2019) 1, S 70–87
Inhalt: Doctoral study is a vulnerable time when students are faced with the task of establishing a new professional identity in a competitive environment, with financial stress, an uncertain future, and low status. This significant period of uncertainty is a particularly ripe context for higher education researchers to explore, as it simultaneously falls during important family formation and childbearing years. Through in-depth, semistructured interviews of 30 married women doctoral candidates, largely within the humanities and social sciences and the lens of uncertainty management theory, this investigation examines how women construct and manage uncertainty surrounding the mother-scholar identity.
Schlagwörter:motherhood; mother-scholar; Professor; Promotionsphase; women in higher education; work-life balance
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf
Impact of Flexible Work Arrangements on Job Satisfaction Among the Female Teachers in the Higher Education Sector
Autor/in:
Rahman, Mayeesha Fairuz
Quelle: EJBM (European Journal of Business and Management), 11 (2019) 18
Inhalt: A remarkable growth of female participation has been observed in the job market of Bangladesh over the past few years. The number of female employees and their contribution is likely to increase further with the pace of the country’s development in terms of the literacy rate and employment scope. Among the several thriving sectors of the country, the significance of the education sector especially in the tertiary level is highlighted by the noble contribution they make to the economy. Due the rapid increase in the number of private universities over the past few years in the country, quite a large number of women have chosen to embark on this field with the hopes of establishing themselves as academicians. However, one of the existing impediments which obstructs several women to reach their zenith professionally is rigid company policies specifically lack of flexibility. The importance of Flexible Work Arrangements (FWA) has recently gained the attention of academicians as well as practitioners to improve employee performance. Since participation of women in a noble sector like education is highly desired; hence, the present study aims to investigate the relationship between Flexible Work Arrangements (FWA), Employee Job satisfaction and Work-life Balance of the female teachers in the higher education sector of the country. Based on the analysis of diverse literature from the secondary data, hypotheses were developed and in order to test those, primary data had been collected, responses from 203 female teachers were analyzed through SPSS. The findings have confirmed that FWA have positive and significant impact both on Employee Job Satisfaction and Work-life Balance as well as Work-life Balance has a positive impact on Job Satisfaction. However, one of the elements of FWA, namely, Compressed Workweek, is found to have values lower than the significance level after performing regression analysis.
Geschlechterungleichheiten in der Universitätsmedizin : Zum Einfluss der Organisationskultur auf den Ausstieg von Habilitandinnen
Autor/in:
Ginal, Marina
Quelle: Springer VS, 2019, 1. 393 S
Inhalt: Überdurchschnittlich viele Frauen verlassen die Wissenschaft in der Habilitationsphase. Das untersucht Marina Ginal am Beispiel des Ausstiegs von Hochschulmedizinerinnen aus dem Wissenschaftsbetrieb. Die Studie zeigt im qualitativen Längsschnitt die charakteristischen Hürden einer Habilitation. Sie verknüpft soziologische und psychologische Einflüsse auf dem Weg zur Professur und erläutert, warum „Gläsernen Decken“ heute vor allem als individuelles Scheitern erscheinen. Hierfür werden die untersuchten Prozesse u.a. mit Theorien über hegemonial männliche Organisationskulturen, unternehmerische Arbeitsweisen sowie mit Salutogenese, Disstress und Selbstwirksamkeit verbunden. Die Studie verknüpft damit individualpsychologische Prozesse mit deren gesellschaftlicher Bedeutung für zeitgenössische Ungleichheiten und plädiert für dringend erforderliche Änderungen der Organisationskultur.
Schlagwörter:gatekeeping; Gender Studies; Geschlechterforschung; Geschlechterverhältnisse; Gleichstellung; Habilitation; lack of fit; medicine; Medizin; Mutterschutz; Organisationskultur; organizational culture; social sciences; Sozialwissenschaft
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Hochschulen, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf
Quelle: APSC (PS: Political Science & Politics), 52 (2019) 1, S 35–38
Inhalt: We are three women political scientists. Two of us are women of color (black women), two are mothers, one has a chronic illness; we all identify as first-generation college students. We care about our students and about our research; we strive for emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. We know that the expectation for managing our complex lives is to find work–life balance. Work–life balance is a gold standard: something employers are meant to help us achieve and something for which we are supposed to strive. We have even come to expect it for ourselves.
Shouldn’t Leisure Scholars Know Better? : How the Work/Leisure Dichotomy Affects Policy and Culture for Academic Mothers
Autor/in:
Oakleaf, Linda; Burk, Brooke N.; Mausolf, Anna Pechenik
Quelle: SCHOLE: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 34 (2019) 2, S 96–108
Inhalt: This study was designed to understand the impact of university policy and departmental culture on academic mothers’ employment, family, and leisure experiences. Telephone interviews were conducted with 17 mothers employed as academics in the field of leisure and closely aligned disciplines to provide insight into the effects of parenting within academia, current corporate university culture, and work–life balance. Qualitative analysis, guided by post-structural feminist theory, revealed three major themes in the findings, which together suggest flawed administrative applications of the work/leisure dichotomy are negatively impacting mothers in academia. Rather than prolific researchers and proponents of leisure serving as exemplars to the academic community of success in employment, family, and leisure, this study’s findings suggest otherwise. As participants shared their struggles with unrealistic expectations, unsupportive colleagues, and conflicting workplace policies, this research instead supports a particularly critical review of leisure scholars and the employment policies of their academic departments.
Schlagwörter:academic culture; Frauen in der Wissenschaft; leisure; Mutterschaft; tenure; university policy; working mothers
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf
Quelle: Deutsches Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung (DZHW); Hannover (Daten- und Methodenbericht), 2019.
Inhalt: Dieser Daten- und Methodenbericht widmet sich der qualitativen Teilstudie der WiNbus-Studie „Wissenschaft und Familie“, die im Jahr 2015 durchgeführt wurde. Da die Online-Befragung und die qualitative Teilstudie – im Sinne eines Mixed-Methods-Forschungsdesigns – miteinander verbunden sind und auf einem gemeinsamen theoretischen Modell fundieren, wird zunächst auf die WiNbus-Studienreihe und insbesondere auf die Anlage der WiNbus-Studie 2015 „Wissenschaft und Familie“ eingegangen und abschließend auf die qualitative Teilstudie.
Is There a Motherhood Penalty in Academia? : The Gendered Effect of Children on Academic Publications
Autor/in:
Lutter, Mark; Schröder, Martin
Quelle: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung; (MPIfG Discussion Paper, 19/2), 2019.
Inhalt: Based on data that tracks CV and publication records as well as survey information from sociologists in German academia, we examine the effects of parenthood on the publication output of male and female academics. Results indicate that having children leads to a sig-nificant decline in the number of publications by women, while not affecting the number of publications by men. We also find that the gendered effect of children on productivity hardly mitigates differences in publication output between men and women, as women still publish about 20 percent less than men after controlling for the adverse effects of chil-dren on productivity. We further find that the gendered effect of childbearing depends partly on prior levels of women’s academic achievements, which suggests mechanisms of performance-driven self-selection. Lower-performing women tend to suffer a stronger motherhood penalty, while the publication output of more successful women (who have been granted academic awards) is not reduced through childbirth. The results indicate that women are better at managing the “double burden” of parenthood and career if external, award-giving committees have bestowed prestige upon them and indicated their potential for a scientific career. Overall, these findings contribute to a better understanding of how to reduce the adverse effect of children on female publication output.