Thorny tenure case at case western leads to sex-bias charges : a scientist with a strong publication record was twice denied tenure, and her data were seized
Autor/in:
Smallwood, Scott
Quelle: The chronicle of higher education, Vol. 47 (2001) No. 24, S. 14-16
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
The contradiction of the myth of individual merit, and the reality of a patriarchal
support system in academic careers : a feminist investigation
Autor/in:
Bagilhole, Barbara; Goode, Jackie
Quelle: The European journal of women's studies, Vol. 8 (2001) No. 2, S. 161-180
Inhalt: "This article draws on data from a qualitative research study undertaken in an old
(pre-1992) UK university with the main aim of investigating the issue of the gender
dimension of academic careers. It examines the idea of an individualistic academic
career that demands self-promotion, which is still used as a measure of achievement
by those in senior positions. However, there is a basic contradiction. While this
idea is upheld, men simultaneously gain by an in-built patriarchal support system.
They do not have to make a conscious effort to be helped by it, thereby perpetuating
the cultural hegemony of individualism. Women are not admitted to this support system,
and if they are seen as needing or wanting to set up their own system, this is viewed
as a weakness. The answer appears to be for women to strategically harness feminist
ways of working in a collaborative and supportive way." (author's abstract)|
CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Women in the construction industry in the U.K. : a cultural discord?
Autor/in:
Bagilhole, Barbara M.; Dainty, Andrew R.J.; Neale, Richard
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 6 (2000) No. 1, S. 73-86
Inhalt: "The construction industry is the most male dominated of all industrial sectors in
the United Kingdom. This article reports on a study that explored women's and men's
experiences of working in the industry, focusing on how the cultural aspects of the
workplace environment impinged upon women's career development. We interviewed more
than 80 male and female construction professionals from large construction organizations,
and compared their career accounts in order to establish the aspects of the workplace
culture that had a gender-differentiated impact on progression. We found that construction
organizations formed competitive "power" cultures where women's contributions were
marginalized and their careers impeded through a combination of inflexible work practices
and discriminatory behavior. These barriers to women's careers were maintained in
small project teams by autonomous male operational managers. Their locus of control
embraced recruitment, promotion, and staff development, which allowed them to sustain
a workplace culture intolerant of nontraditional entrants. We conclude that this cultural
environment is likely to remain problematic for women unless it can be changed in
a way that values their contribution. This requires a radical shift in middle management
attitudes, a departure from current organizational human resource management systems,
and a wider acceptance of the need for cultural change within the industry." (author's
abstract)|
Laboratory talk and women's retention rates in science
Autor/in:
Conefrey, Theresa
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 6 (2000) No. 3, S. 251-264
Inhalt: "Despite initiatives designed to increase women's participation in science, their
attrition rates remain high. To improve women's retention rates, this article proposes
a closer examination of the culture of science to discover what it is about it that
women might find uncomfortable, that could create a 'chilly climate' for them. A 2-year
ethnographic study of a university research laboratory group was conducted that identified
the group's communication style as problematic for some female members. A weekly meeting
was selected that exemplifies several of the dynamics of the communication style that
women at this laboratory had found problematic. An analysis of this meeting identified
specific features of the talk and examined research findings from the fields of language
and gender research and laboratory studies to explain why women might find these features
problematic." (author's abstract)|
CEWS Kategorie:Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
"Dim dross": marginalised women both inside and outside the academy
Autor/in:
Reay, Diane
Quelle: Women's studies international forum, Vol. 23 (2000) No. 1, S. 13-21
Inhalt: "In this article, I draw on my own experiences as a female contract researcher at
a British university as a starting point for raising issues around social justice,
ethics of caring and the culture of uncaring which permeates academic, as well as
wider social, elites. Although the term 'dross' was directed by Chris Woodhead, the
Chief Inspector of the Office for Standards in Education, the schools inspection service
in England and Wales, in his polemic against academic sociologists, towards the work
of myself and a small group of mainly gender and race researchers within education,
it is the still working-class female who is most at risk of being captured within
such representations. In this article, I attempt to juxtapose the position of the
female contract researcher, and in particular those of us from working-class backgrounds,
with dominant discursive constructions of still working-class women in order to make
sense of processes of marginalisation both within and without the academy." (author's
abstract)|
Geschlechterarrangements in der Bundesrepublik : Kontinuität und Wandel
Titelübersetzung:Gender arrangements in the Federal Republic : continuity and change
Autor/in:
Weber, Ulla; Schaeffer-Hegel, Barbara
Quelle: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte : Beilage zur Wochenzeitung Das Parlament, (2000) B 31/32, S. 5-10
Inhalt: "Seit die Gleichberechtigung der Geschlechter 1949 in Deutschland als Grundrecht festgeschrieben wurde, hat sich die rechtliche Stellung der Frau entscheidend verbessert. War eine Frau 1949 keine eigenständige Geschäftsperson, sondern in sämtlichen öffentlichen und familiären Fragen von ihrem Ehemann abhängig, stehen Frauen und Männern im Jahr 2000 dieselben Rechte und Pflichten zu. Trotzdem hat sich der Gleichberechtigungsgedanke in der Realität bis heute nicht erfüllt. Die Ursachen der ökonomischen, sozialen und kulturellen Benachteiligungen, denen Frauen ausgesetzt sind, liegen zu einem wesentlichen Teil bei gesetzlichen Regelungen, die Frauen und Männern, spätestens zu dem Zeitpunkt, wenn sie Eltern werden, nahe legen, traditionelle Rollenmuster zu leben." (Autorenreferat)
Barriers and constraints : women physicists' perceptions of career progress
Autor/in:
Hodgson, Barbara; Scanlon, Eileen; Whitelegg, Elizabeth
Quelle: Physics education, Vol. 35 (2000) No. 6, S. 454-459
Inhalt: "Researchers in the area of women in science are trying to understand how the participation of women in science can be increased and also what prevents women from developing scientific careers. Past influential work supports the importance of taking the perspective of women's education and career paths as a whole, emphasizing the importance of structural and social factors in career progress. This paper reports some outcomes from an interview study with women PhD physicists working in a variety of science-related careers. Our aim is to explore and document the career experience of women scientists and to identify barriers and constraints to women's participation in science careers and to investigate ways in which educational experiences contribute to career progress." (author's abstract)