Inhalt: Women leaders are frequently treated as one class – a homogenised group with essentialised skills and competencies in binary relationship to male leaders. We explore how feminist ways of knowing gender and leadership, and circulations of affects, shape women’s diverse leadership practices and identities within the neoliberal, and neuroliberal academy in Finland – a Nordic country with a sophisticated gender equality policy architecture. We debate the (re)production of social and material inequalities through epistemic injustice by exploring what possibilities are emerging from the assemblages and relational potential of policy interventions, global speaking back to patriarchal power, the revisioning of gender, and the inclusion of women in higher education leadership. Theoretically, the study intersects feminist affect notions, neoliberalism, neuroliberalism, and epistemic inclusion/injustice. We conducted 10 interviews with middle-classed women university leaders in five universities. They described how, in the absence of possibilities to facilitate major structural changes, they applied their feminist knowledge and invested affective labour in the mediation of neoliberal and neuroliberal cultures. The politics of representation – counting more women into neoliberal universities, as one class, is not, we conclude, a counter-normative force. We need to consider how to apply feminist knowledge for leading post-gender universities and imagining alternative futurities.

Schlagwörter:Feminist knowledge; Finland; Führungsposition; Hochschule; Neoliberalismus; soziale Klasse

CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Hochschulen, Geschlechterverhältnis

Verfügbarkeit:https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2020.1855567

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: Wie steht es um Emotionen im politischen Feld? Wie wichtig ist emotionales Kapital und was bedeutet es, Emotionsarbeit leisten zu müssen? Welche Rolle spielen dabei das Geschlecht sowie auch der Körper? Was folgt aus der zunehmenden Relevanz von Social Media im politischen Alltag? Ergeben sich hieraus neue emotionale Belastungen? Diese und weitere Fragen stehen im Zentrum dieses Buches. Es bietet einen Einblick in ein politisches Feld aus einer arbeits- und geschlechtersoziologischen Sicht. Die Verfasserin hat hierzu Bundestagsabgeordnete interviewt und kann so ein anschauliches Bild der emotionalen Herausforderungen politischer Arbeit geben.

Schlagwörter:Arbeitssoziologie; Emotionen; Geschlecht; Geschlechtersoziologie; Körper; Politik; Politikerin; Social Media

CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Dokumenttyp:Monographie

Inhalt: Recent scholarship on universities explores how academics’ families and partners restrict their careers and how academic labour limits these relationships, both in highly gendered ways. Such research less often considers how people’s close relations might unevenly support them in continuously relocating; dedicating unpaid time to ‘career development’; or taking on or influencing them to remain in short-term, poorly paid precarious roles. This paper explores precariously employed post-PhDs in Australia, investigating their gendered careers and personal lives. Drawing on interviews at three public universities, it shows how women with children and partners in particular raise concerns over how their relationships and work interact. Here, certain kinds of workers – men and single women, unencumbered by family responsibilities and restrictions on travel, and with access to financial resources – appear better able to navigate moves to more secure work. This paper argues that support from close relations is productive and restrictive for precarious academics’ careers.

Schlagwörter:academia career; akademische Karriere; Australia; Australien; familäre Verpflichtungen; Familie; family; gender inequality; Geschlechterungleichheit; Partnerbeziehung; Partnerschaft; partnership; prekäre Beschäftigung; Vereinbarkeit; work-life balance

CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Europa und Internationales, Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis

Verfügbarkeit:https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2021.1902482

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: This paper explores the experiences of eight Muslim women academics (MWA) within a range of sciences and humanities disciplines. The data draws from my doctoral study which examined the experiences of men and women Muslim academics at UK universities. Findings from in-depth interviews with participants highlight the intersectionality of religio-gendered identities as central to their experiences. Being hijabed in academia triggered gendered-Islamophobic micro-aggressions, whose potential impact on the participants was buffered by their resilience, positive outlook, and belief. Further, they capitalized on their visible faith to demystify negative perceptions about Muslims and to advance their career-through utilizing the diversity logic within academia, while recognizing its tokenistic nature. Despite facing challenges, the participants share certain qualities that facilitate success, with agency being the uppermost quality.

Schlagwörter:academics; akademische Karriere; Großbritannien; Intersektionalität; Islam; microaggressions; Muslim; muslim woman; Rassismus; UK

CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Diversity, Europa und Internationales, Geschlechterverhältnis

Verfügbarkeit:https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2021.1893664

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: We apply event history analysis to analyze career and publication data of virtually all political scientists in German university departments, showing that each published refereed journal article increases a political scientist's chance for tenure by 9 percent, while other publications affect the odds for tenure only marginally and in some cases even negatively. Each received award and third party funding increases the odds for tenure by respectively 41 and 26 percent, while international experience, social capital and children hardly have a strong influence. Surprisingly, having degrees from a German university of excellence strongly decreases the odds for tenure. Women with similar credentials have at least 20 percent higher odds to get tenure than men. Our data therefore suggests that the lower factual hiring rates of women are better explained by a leaky pipeline, e.g. women leaving academia, rather than because women are not hired even when they are as productive as men. The article contributes to a better understanding of the role of meritocratic and non-meritocratic factors in achieving highly competitive job positions. Ein paar Auszüge: SSCI Publikationen sind besonders wichtig. Ähnliche Signalwirkungen haben Drittmittelprojekte und wissenschaftliche Auszeichnungen. Frauen mit gleichen Charakteristika wie Männer haben keine schlechteren Chancen, berufen zu werden. Danach interessierte uns, warum einige Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler produktiver sind.

Schlagwörter:German higher education system; Hiring Decision; meritocracy; political science; Politikwissenschaft; Professor*in; publication; Publikation; Rekrutierung; soziales Kapital

CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Geschlechterverhältnis

Verfügbarkeit:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: Using a unique panel dataset of virtually all German academic political scientists, we show that researchers become much more productive due to the accumulation of human capital and third party funding. We also show however, that while universities of excellence have more productive researchers, individuals who go there do not become more productive. Finally, we show how women publish only 9 percent less than men with the same level of prior publication experience, but are about 26 percent less productive over their entire career, as early productivity leads to later productivity, so that women increasingly fall behind. These results cannot be explained through the influence of childbearing. Rather, they support the ‘theory of limited differences’, which argues that small differences in early productivity accumulate to large differences over entire careers, as early success encourages later success. Apart from generally showing why political scientists publish more or less, we specifically identify accumulative advantage as the principal reason why women increasingly fall behind men over the course of their careers. Hier zeigen wir, dass Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler an Exzellenzuniversitäten produktiver sind („Bestenauslese“). Doch dieselbe Wissenschaftlerin / Wissenschaftler wird nicht produktiver, weil man dort hin geht. Die wichtigsten Prädiktoren späterer Produktivität sind vorherige Produktivität und Drittmitteleinwerbungen. Dass Frauen weniger publizieren, können wir nicht darauf zurückführen, dass sie seltener auf höhere Karrierestufen kommen („leaky pipeline“), sondern vielmehr auf geringere Publikationserfahrung zu Beginn ihrer akademischen Laufbahn. Frauen publizieren also anfangs weniger, und da frühe Publikationserfahrung zu mehr Produktivität führt, wird der Abstand zu Männern im Verlaufe einer Karriere immer größer. Dies wiederum kann man nicht damit erklären, dass Kinder die Produktivität von Frauen stärker senken als von Männern.

Schlagwörter:academic career; Bestenauswahl; Drittmittel; Exzellenzinitiative; Forschungsförderung; funding; German higher education system; Geschlechterunterschied; human capital; Humankapital; political science; Produktivität; publication; Publikationsverhalten; wissenschaftliche Karriere

CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis

Verfügbarkeit:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11192-021-04175...

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: The transition of early career researchers into academic posts is understood to be a crucial career step and marks a point at which representation of women declines significantly. The research adopts a participatory qualitative research methodology through career narrative interviews and group discussions with women engineers recently appointed into academic posts. It was found that academic careers are ‘hoped for’, but not described as a straightforward option in terms of either securing tenure or future career development. The collective career paths outlined were rarely linear and featured key moments of crisis and self-doubt, culminating in ‘tentative’ career identity formation in the face of gendered career structures. There is evidence of a pre-emptive and continuing uncertainty about the feasibility of an academic career that begins years before embarking on a PhD. The distinctive contribution of the study is the consideration of gendered early processes of forming an academic identity and ongoing collective experiences of becoming an academic.

Schlagwörter:akademische Karriere; early career researchers; Gender; Ingenieurwissenschaft; soziale Konstruktion; transition; Übergangsphase; wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs

CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis

Verfügbarkeit:https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2020.1865523

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: Der Bericht präsentiert empirische Befunde zur Situation des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses in Deutschland. Schwerpunktthema der Ausgabe 2021 sind die Karriereverläufe Promovierter, weitere Themen sind Arbeits- und Beschäftigungsbedingungen, Qualifizierungsbedingungen in der Promotionsphase, Übergänge in die Qualifizierung sowie Karrierewege und berufliche Pers-pektiven nach der Promotion. Die Personalstruktur- und Personalentwicklung, Vereinbarkeit von Familie und akademischer Karriere, Mobilitätsverhalten und Analysen zu Fachkulturen werden ebenfalls behandelt. Basis des Berichtes sind Daten aus amtlichen Statistiken sowie aus regelmäßig durchgeführten Befragungen. Vergleichbarkeit und Einordnung der Befunde stehen bei der Aufbereitung der Daten im Mittelpunkt. Der Bericht schafft eine Wissensbasis für Hochschulen und Forschungs-einrichtungen, Interessenvertretungen, Förderorganisationen sowie Entscheidungsträgerinnen und Entscheidungsträger in Bund und Ländern.

Schlagwörter:Berufsperspektiven; Chancengerechtigkeit; Elternschaft; EU; Familie; Familie-Beruf; Frauenanteil; Hochschulpolitik; Hochschulrecht; Internationalität; Karriereverlauf; Nachwuchsförderung; Promotion; Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf; wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs

CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Bildung und Erziehung, Fördermaßnahmen, Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf, Wissenschaft als Beruf, Berufungsverfahren

Verfügbarkeit:https://www.buwin.de/dateien/buwin-2021.pdf

Dokumenttyp:Monographie

Inhalt: “Public speaking is an important skill for career prospects and for leadership positions, but many people tend to avoid it. We run a field experiment to analyze whether in an incentivized setting men and women show differences in their willingness to speak in public. The experiment involved more than 500 undergraduates who could gain two points to add to the final grade of their exam by presenting solutions to a set problem orally. Students were randomly assigned to give a presentation to the instructor only or in front of a large audience (a class of 100 or more). We find that while women are more willing to do a face-to-face presentation, they are considerably less likely to give a public presentation. We show that female aversion to public speaking does not depend on differences in ability or other psychological attitudes. Such an aversion seems considerably less marked for daughters of working women. The aversion to public speaking cannot be interpreted as strategic avoidance deriving from women anticipating their poor performance in this specific task. From survey data we also show that neither increasing the gains deriving from public speaking nor allowing participants more time to prepare lessens the gender gap.”

Schlagwörter:female; gender difference; leadership; public speaking; soft skill

CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere

Verfügbarkeit:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2021.102001

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: In order to avoid continuous seasoned scientist/professional female gender polarization and marginalization in our society, Cameroon Professional Research Oriented Women Network (CaPROWN) took up the initiative – under the sponsorship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) – to propagate a trans-disciplinary research review approach to seek collaboration outside the bounds of female scientific professional experiences to make new discoveries, explore different perspectives, express and exchange ideas, and gain new insights into gender through peer-reviewed volumes like this. Thus, this book is not solely about gender-related research topics, but rather on works of mostly female researchers that have gone through reviewed lenses of experts of different science disciplines.

Schlagwörter:Africa; Gleichstellungspolitik; Kamerun; Mentoring; Netzwerk; Wissenschaftlerin

CEWS Kategorie:Berufsbiographie und Karriere, Europa und Internationales, Mentoring und Training, Netzwerke und Organisationen

Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk