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
“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.
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
A Study of Work Life Balance for Women Faculty in Higher Education
Autor/in:
Nayak, Nitin; Gulavani, Sampada
Quelle: ETHOS, 11 (2018) 2, S 33–39
Inhalt: Work life balance is a broad concept including proper prioritizing between career and ambition on onehand, compared with pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development on the other. Work life balanceis a daily effort to make time for family, friends, community participation, spirituality, personal growth,self care and other personal activities, in addition to the demands of the workplace. Balanced employeestend to feel more motivated and less stressed out at work, which increases the organizational productivityand builds a sustainable workforce. Working women face conflicts due to their continuing role as primarycaretakers for their homes, children, and elderly parents. Also women faculty in higher education has tospend extra time for own development effective and productive in their profession so that they couldreach higher levels and face the challenging atmosphere. Hence support from family members and spouseis required to the women faculty working in higher education. Also management should take care tomaintain healthy work environment, increase employee morale and managing proper employer employeerelationship in the higher education institutions.
Schlagwörter:higher education; Women Faculty; Working Women; work-life balance
CEWS Kategorie:Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Work-Life Balance in Higher Education for Women : Perspectives of Athletic Training Faculty
Autor/in:
Mazerolle, Stephanie M.; Barrett, Jessica L.
Quelle: Athletic Training Education Journal, 13 (2018) 3, S 248–258
Inhalt: KEY POINTS:
1. Women in athletic training faculty positions struggle with work-life balance similar to women in faculty positions in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
2. A culture of balance in the workplace, which allows female faculty members the flexibility to arrange and prioritize their work schedules, can assist women in achieving work-life balance.
3. Support networks are necessary both within and outside of the workplace to allow women to balance their responsibilities.
Schlagwörter:athletic training faculty; Flexible workplace arrangements; higher education; organization and planning; parenthood; support networks; work-life balance
CEWS Kategorie:Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Doing Neoliberalism on Campus : The Vulnerability of Gender Equality Mechanisms in Estonian Academia
Autor/in:
Aavik, Kadri
Quelle: GV/GR (Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research), 18 (2017) 1, S 130–153
Inhalt: This paper explores the construction of a gendered neoliberal rationality in post-socialist academic settings. Drawing on interviews conducted with key stakeholders in four major Estonian universities, I trace how three key gender equality policy measures are conceptualised – quotas, workplace flexibility, and the involvement of men in efforts towards gender equality. The findings suggest that Estonian academic stakeholders fill these key gender equality policy ideas with meanings that distort the original purpose of these solutions, and thereby render these policy ideas counter-productive as mechanisms designed to bring about change in gender relations. Instead, these conceptualisations serve the interests of the neoliberal university, enabling and reinforcing the atomisation and exploitation of academic labourers, particularly women. Collectively, these articulations constitute, along with other practices, the ‘doing of neoliberalism’ in post-socialist university settings. Academic stakeholders do not (just) reflect an already established totalising neoliberal framework, but in fact discursively (and materially) create and reproduce what we have come to understand and refer to as ‘neoliberalism’ in academia. This has implications for devising and implementing gender equality policies in higher education in the post-socialist region, as the solutions applied elsewhere in Europe may not work in the same way in Central-Eastern Europe.
Schlagwörter:academia; academic stakeholders; affirmative action; Estland; Estonia; familienfreundliche Hochschule; feminized university; Frauen in der Wissenschaft; gender bias; gender equality policy; neoliberalism; post-socialism; Quote; racial bias; workplace felixibility
CEWS Kategorie:Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf, Hochschulen, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Should I stay or should I go? : The effects of precariousness on the gendered career aspirations of postdocs in Switzerland
Autor/in:
Bataille, Pierre; Le Feuvre, Nicky; Kradolfer Morales, Sabine
Quelle: European Educational Research Journal, 16 (2017) 2-3, S 313–331
Inhalt: The assumption that men are more likely to undertake and succeed in an academic career, because the requirements of professional success in this occupation are compatible with normative gender assumptions, particularly that of fulfilling a ‘male breadwinner’ or main household earner role, implying reduced domestic and care commitments, is discussed. It is suggested that Switzerland offers a particularly interesting case for this study, because of the combination of the specific structure of academic careers, the characteristics of the non-academic labour market and the dominant gender regime. It is shown that, in this particular context, the aspirations of postdocs to remain in academic employment or to look for non-academic jobs are directly related to their position within the domestic division of labour and to their personal and family circumstances. However, this does not necessarily lead to a clear-cut divide between work-committed men, who ‘succeed’ (and hence stay), and care-committed women who ‘fail’ to climb up the academic career ladder (and hence leave). The results suggest that the situation is more complex and requires a subtle distinction between different ideal-types of post-doctoral experiences that do not always cut neatly across gender lines.
Quelle: European Educational Research Journal, 16 (2017) 2-3, S 332–351
Inhalt: This paper addresses the topic of work–life interferences in academic contexts. More specifically, it focuses on early career researchers in the Italian university system. The total availability required from those who work in the research sector is leading to significant transformations of the temporalities of work, especially among the new generation of researchers, whose condition is characterized by a higher degree of instability and uncertainty. Which are the experiences of the early career researchers in an academic context constituted by a growing competition for permanent positions and, as a consequence, by a greatly increased pressure? Which are the main gender differences? In what elements do Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics disciplines differ from Social Sciences and Humanities? The collected narratives reveal how the ongoing process of precarization is affecting both the everyday working activities and the private and family lives of early career researchers, with important consequences also on their future prospects.