Quelle: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, (2021) 3-4
Inhalt: Ob Corona-Krise oder Klimawandel: Politik ist auf wissenschaftliche Beratung angewiesen. Welche allgemeinen Regeln und Prinzipien gelten dafür? Wer berät mit welchem Wissen? Wer findet warum Gehör? Und welchen Einfluss hat öffentliche Kommunikation?
Inhalt: “This book investigates the gendered dimensions of academic life in the contemporary Australian university. It examines key discourses – most notably academic performativity and identity – through a feminist lens, and scrutinises how discourses of neoliberalism and feminism are entangled in the structure, systems, operations and cultures of the university. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with academic women in Australia, the author uses a mix of experimental methods to emphasise the performative and discursive decisions women make with regard to their academic careers. In doing so, this book reveals how women themselves generate neoliberal and feminist shifts, how they manage the contradictions they produce, and how they carve spaces of influence and authority. Moving towards a re-evaluation of existing discourses, this book offers new insights into gender inequality in the Australian university in neoliberal times.”
Schlagwörter:academia; Australia; neoliberal university
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaftspolitik, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Monographie
Lässt sich "Cancel Culture" empirisch belegen? : Impulse für eine pluralistische Fachdebatte
The gender gap in highly prestigious international research awards, 2001–2020
Autor/in:
Meho, Lokman I.
Quelle: Quantitative Science Studies, 2 (2021) 3, S 976–989
Inhalt: This study examines gender disparities in the world’s 141 most prestigious international research awards. I find that (a) from 2001 to 2020 these awards were received 3,445 times by 2,011 men and 262 women; (b) women’s share increased from an annual average of 6% during 2001–2005 to an annual average of 19% during 2016–2020; (c) 49 of the 141 awards were not received by women during 2016–2020; and (d) when the numbers of female full professors are taken into consideration, the gender gap remains highly disproportionate in biological and life sciences, computer science, and mathematics. Overall, women would be expected to increase their share of awards by nearly 50% to achieve parity with men today. The study shows great similarities between men and women award recipients in journal articles per author, the average number of authors per article, the proportion of articles in top journals, citations per article, and participation in large research groups and international collaborations. I conclude that the gender gap in highly prestigious research awards is largely a result of demographic inertia and other factors that deserve further investigation.
Schlagwörter:Awards and Prizes; Forschung; Forschungsförderung; gender gap; Preis (Forschungs-/Lehr-); woman in science
Ljubljana Declaration Gender Equality in Research and Innovation
Autor/in:
Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
Quelle: , 2021.
Inhalt: The Ljubljana Declaration refers to shared European values and calls on Member States and other countries to fully acknowledge gender mainstreaming as a horizontal principle and jointly work on improvement in six priority areas of gender equality:
Ensure fair, open, inclusive and gender equal career paths in research, and consider intersectional perspectives on gender inequalities;
Facilitate mutual learning opportunities through form-follows-function robust governance;
Employ existing and newly developed tools, such as Gender Equality Plans, to facilitate systemic institutional change and remove institutional barriers;
Address and counteract gender-based violence;
Support active monitoring and evaluation to ensure continuous improvement; and
Leverage synergies to enhance gender equality achievements within the European Research Area, but also within complementary fields such as the European Higher Education Area, Cohesion policy funds, innovation ecosystems, as well as in international cooperation.
The Declaration was drafted ”bottom up”, with the support of the current and upcoming Trio Presidencies European Research Area and Innovation Committee (ERAC) Standing Working Group on Gender in Research and Innovation (SWG GRI) representatives.
Schlagwörter:EU; Europäische Gemeinschaft; european research area; gender equality; gender equality plan; Innovation; intersectionality; intersektionale Perspektive; research
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Wissenschaftspolitik, Gleichstellungspolitik
Quelle: Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz, 2021.
Inhalt: In academic, non-profit and business research, project funding and grants are important elements to promote science, boost innovation and support researchers on their career paths. However, they are also powerful instruments to materialize and prioritize major principles of science policy and social values such as gender equality and equity. An analysis of research funding processes and organisations in the scope of the EU project CHANGE1 could illuminate gender policies and practices, aiming at a more diverse and gender equitable research and innovation landscape, but could also reveal inherent gender biases. This paper particularly focuses on the results of 41 expert interviews on research budgets, gender policies and practices in research funding in the three “strong innovator”-countries Austria, Germany and Israel, and explores the hidden potential of gender in science and research funding in all sectors.
Schlagwörter:Austria; Auswahlverfahren; Deutschland; Forschungsförderung; gender bias; gender policy; Germany; grant application; Israel; Österreich; research funding
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaftspolitik, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Policy framing and resistance : Gender mainstreaming in Horizon 2020
Autor/in:
Vida, Bianka
Quelle: European Journal of Women's Studies, 28 (2021) 1, S 26–41
Inhalt: Scholarship on gender mainstreaming (GM) in the European Union (EU) consistently highlights the disappointing implementation of gender mainstreaming. This article contributes to that discussion through the analysis of the first policy frame on gender equality in the work programmes of the EU’s Framework Programme for Research and Development, Horizon 2020, from 2014 until 2016. This article analyses how GM as a transformative strategy is contextualised by advisory group experts, and what is being achieved within Horizon 2020 work programmes. In opposition to the Commission’s rhetorical commitment to GM, this article demonstrates that Horizon 2020 work programmes exemplify a failure of implementing GM, further depoliticising gender equality in the Commission’s neoliberal context.
Gender equality in research funding : A study of 11 European Countries, Israel, and Canada - Deliverable 6.3
Autor/in:
Hermansson, Kenth; Jacobsson, Carl; Österberg, Richard
Quelle: GENDER-NET Plus; , 2021.
Inhalt: This report examines the gender equality situation in European research funding, with the Canadian situation as a perspective. In-depth studies of the 13 GENDER-NET Plus countries are complemented by the analysis of aggregated data from the Gender Gap Index, and, for the European countries, data from Eurostat and She Figures. The European Commission report The Gender Challenge in Research Funding from 2009 serves as a base line for the analysis.
Gendered Innovations 2 : How inclusive analysis contributes to research and innovation - H2020 Expert Group to update and expand “Gendered Innovations/ Innovation through Gender”
Inhalt: Casualization is on the rise in higher education institutions (HEI) worldwide, particularly affecting working conditions and career prospects of young academics. They represent a vast pool of talent essential to meet future societal needs, yet this “generation precarious” increasingly questions whether it is worthwhile. In this paper we discuss the consequences of casualization for quality in teaching and research. We will present an overview of studies and surveys on employment terms, working conditions and career prospects for early-stage researchers – the “generation precarious” – in Europe, with a particular eye to Norway. Based on this, we highlight concerns and potential consequences of precarious work and deteriorating working conditions within the higher education system.
Schlagwörter:early career researchers; Europe; higher education; Norway; Prekariat; working condition
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaftspolitik, Wissenschaft als Beruf