Quelle: Gender and Education, 32 (2020) 1, S 11–26
Inhalt: Drawing on data collected in a cross-disciplinary survey of early-career academics (ECAs) in New Zealand, this article explores the factors influencing ECA conference attendance. Our conceptual framework uses conference attendance as the dependent variable and measures gender, ethnicity, family responsibilities and workload. Three key features affect conference attendance: "demographic characteristics" (background features and prior experiences that affect an academic's willingness and ability to attend), "accessibility" (constraints to attending, such as financing, family responsibilities, institutional support or teaching commitments) and "purpose" (the value placed on attending conferences by the individual, the institution, or the discipline). In particular, we identify differences for women, Indigenous people, and those born overseas with respect to their ability to navigate and their inclination to attend national and international conferences.
Schlagwörter:conference culture; early career researcher; ethnic minority; gender inequality; Konferenz; Neuseeland; wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Diversity, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Foreign women in academia : Double‐strangers between productivity, marginalization and resistance
Autor/in:
Strauβ, Anke; Boncori, Ilaria
Quelle: Gender Work Organ (Gender, Work & Organization), 17 (2020) 2, 867 S
Inhalt: This article examines the professional experience of foreign women academics working across geographic boundaries in today's neoliberal academia characterized by liquidity. Framed within an intersectional perspective, we use the concept of the ‘double‐stranger' to examine data stemming from 20 in‐depth semi‐structured interviews conducted with scholars at different stages of their career in the social sciences. This article advances understandings of academic careers theoretically by identifying a temporal and hierarchical dynamic in the intersection of two categories of difference (gender and foreignness) that constitute a position of simultaneous belonging and non‐belonging for foreign women academics; and empirically through a qualitative investigation that explores three areas in which academic professional experiences are mobilized for double‐strangers: (i) transnational career moves; (ii) productivity and performance in today's neoliberal academia; and (iii) self‐induced estrangement as a form of resistance.
German science is thriving, but diversity remains an issue : The research giant lags in its support of female leadership
Autor/in:
Crew, Bec
Quelle: Nature, 587 (2020) 7835
Inhalt: "It is striking how often researchers in Germany mention their appreciation for the chance to pursue blue-sky science. This ability to undertake fundamental, curiosity-driven research without first needing to demonstrate potential applications is especially evident at the Max Planck Society, Germany’s flagship research organization and the country’s most prolific institution according to Share in the Nature Index, our key metric, which measures contributions to articles in 82 selected natural-sciences journals. [...]"
Schlagwörter:academic sector; Diversity; female academic; Germany; research
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.
Wieviel zählt Leistung bei Berufungen, und wieviel Herkunft? : Ein Überblick zu jüngsten Forschungen
Autor/in:
Krempkow, René
Quelle: Qualität in der Wissenschaft (QiW). Zeitschrift für Qualitätsentwicklung in Forschung, Studium und Administration, 13 (2019) 1, S 28–31
Inhalt: Career perspectives for younger scientists are an often-discussed topic at universities and scientific institutions in Germany. Nevertheless, seldom-lighted aspects exist and recent studies, to which in this article I will give an overview, to arrange it in former studies and discuss its relevance. The newer studies suggest an utmost urgency of the topic meritocracy vs. social selectivity, because such a seldom-lighted aspect is the question: How much do we have a calculable meritocracy by the appointment of tenured professors and what a role plays private contacts and social selectivity? For career paths in Science the 1000-Tenure-Track-Professors-Programm of the Federal Government and the federal states of Germany could be a very important sign for more calculability and meritocracy. However, the positive effect only can arise, if the signals in the future will differ from the results in recent studies. Otherwise, it could be very disillusioning.
‘You must aim high’ - ‘No, I never felt like a woman’: women and men making sense of non-standard trajectories into higher education
Autor/in:
González Ramos, Ana M.; Räthzel, Nora
Quelle: International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 10 (2018) 1, 17 S
Inhalt: It is no secret that the ‘glass ceiling’ preventing women advancing to leadership positions exists in academia as well. Spain is no exception. Gender relations are usually investigated independently of other power relations like class and ethnicity. In our sample (80 men and women in different academic institutions across Spain) we found that not only women but also men from working class backgrounds have difficulties making successful academic careers. Therefore, we use an intersectional approach to investigate the relationship between gender and class. Comparing two life-histories, we explore what strategies individuals employ to overcome the barriers with which they are confronted. We present the stories of a woman with a middle class but non-academic background and of a man with a working-class background. Their strategies can be understood as the result of specific individual trajectories under specific societal conditions, but they also illustrate the barriers and possibilities men and women with non-standard backgrounds encounter in academia. Analysing successful strategies as well as their limitations, we aim to provide perspectives that might contribute to changing the culture of hegemonic masculinities in academia.
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Diversity, Europa und Internationales, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Geschlechterverhältnis, Wissenschaft als Beruf