Inhalt: For the past three decades, discussions centred on gender equity have become buzzwords in academic institutions in Nigeria, which has led to an increasing effort to establish gender centres and adopt equity policies. Despite the awareness and presence of gender centres in Nigerian universities, institutionalising gender equity has been challenging. There is a struggle to explain how policy absence and gender centre mergers may constrain positive institutional gender change. This article explores why academic institutions have established gender centres but have not created gender policies. Taking into account the gender stakeholder’s perspectives in two purposively selected universities in Nigeria, this study utilises an integrated feminist approach to investigate why university gender centres are unable to advance gender equity within the institutions. Concepts like institutional resistance and layering offered tools that helped capture the dynamics of institutional change and stasis in the case studies. Findings showed that the existence of gender centres without formalised policies is a window-dressing approach that limits the potential for gender equity within the universities. It also revealed how the redirection of gender centres through mergers with other centres is ‘gendered’. Evidence showed that the prospect for institutional gender change is often tempered by merging incompatible and non-complementary centres. This study, thus, adds to the scholarly literature on institutional resistance, providing valuable insights into the subtle manifestations of resistance towards gender equity institutionalisation in academia.

Schlagwörter:academia; case study; feminist approach; gender change; gender equality policy; Gender Studies; higher education; Hochschule; institutional change; Nigeria; resistance

CEWS Kategorie:Hochschulen, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Gleichstellungspolitik

Verfügbarkeit:https://dx.doi.org/10.32996/jgcs.2022.2.2.2

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: Implicit bias is one of the most successful cases in recent memory of an academic concept being translated into practice. Its use in the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program—which seeks to promote gender equality in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) careers through institutional transformation—has raised fundamental questions about organizational change. How do advocates translate theories into practice? What makes some concepts more tractable than others? What happens to theories through this translation process? We explore these questions using the ADVANCE program as a case study. Using an inductive, theory-building approach and combination of computational and qualitative methods, we investigate how the concept of implicit bias was translated into practice through the ADVANCE program and identify five key features that made implicit bias useful as a change framework in the academic STEM setting. We find that the concept of implicit bias works programmatically because it is (1) demonstrable, (2) relatable, (3) versatile, (4) actionable, and (5) impartial. While enabling the concept’s diffusion, these characteristics also limit its scope. We reflect on implications for gender theories of organizational change and for practitioners.

Schlagwörter:ADVANCE; gender bias; Gleichstellungsarbeit; Gleichstellungsmaßnahmen; Gleichstellungspolitik; implicit bias; MINT; Organisational Change; Organisationswandel; Praxis; Praxis-Theorie-Verhältnis; STEM; Theorie

CEWS Kategorie:Fördermaßnahmen, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Gleichstellungspolitik

Verfügbarkeit:https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08912432211000335

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: The title of this volume captures a central question in contemporary Gender Studies and Sociology. It has, in different ways, preoccupied the researchers who contribute to this special volume for many years. Inspired by feminist theory and practice, it addresses the gendering, the complex gendering, of knowledge, science, research, policy, equality, academia, universities and higher education, along with many interlinked reflections and memories on working together, collegiality and friendship.

Schlagwörter:excellence; Fellowship; gatekeeping; harassment; knowledge production

CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Hochschulen, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Gleichstellungspolitik

Verfügbarkeit:https://oru.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1511237/FULLTEXT...

Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk

Inhalt: Why do inequalities persist betweenmale and female scientists, when the causes are well-researched and widely condemned? In part, because equality has many dimensions. Presenting eightdefinitions of gender equality, we show each is important but incomplete. Rigid application of any single equality indicator can therefore have perverse outcomes.

Schlagwörter:causality; complexity; Definition; gender equality policy; indicators; Kausalität; Outcome; science; terminology

CEWS Kategorie:Gleichstellungspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Statistik und statistische Daten

Verfügbarkeit:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.02.009

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: The Handbook of the International Political Economy of Production offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the changing world of global production. The book explores the topic in a range of directions, including the human material 'used' in production across the globe and alternatives proposed from different quarters. Chapters cover the geography of why and where jobs are moving in both manufacturing and services. The doubling of the world's available labour supply after the opening up of the planned economies in Europe and Asia has sharply tilted the balance of power towards giant corporations. Labour and the politics of work is analyzed in a number of key countries. Possible signs of a recovery of organized labour's negotiating power on this vastly expanded playing field are discussed in separate chapters, and a complete overview is provided of labour research networks currently active. This important volume addresses topics relating to the human and natural basis on which production rests, from the consequences of the exploitation of the body and mind to sex work, biotechnology, and the prospects for ecological re-balancing.

Schlagwörter:Gender; Handbuch; Political economy

CEWS Kategorie:Gleichstellungspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk

Inhalt: This Palgrave Handbook provides a definitive account of women’s political rights across all major regions of the world, focusing both on women’s right to vote and women’s right to run for political office. This dual focus makes this the first book to combine historical overviews of debates about enfranchising women alongside analyses of more contemporary efforts to increase women’s political representation around the globe. Chapter authors map and assess the impact of these groundbreaking reforms, providing insight into these dynamics in a wide array of countries where women’s suffrage and representation have taken different paths and led to varying degrees of transformation. On the eve of many countries celebrating a century of women’s suffrage, as well as record numbers of women elected and appointed to political office, this timely volume offers an important introduction to ongoing developments related to women’s political empowerment worldwide. It will be of interest to students and scholars across the fields of gender and politics, women’s studies, history and sociology.

Schlagwörter:Frauenrechte; Frauenrechtsgeschichte; Frauenwahlrecht; Handbuch; Politikerin

CEWS Kategorie:Gleichstellungspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk

Inhalt: Eine Reihe von Studien kommt seit den 90er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts zu dem Ergebnis, dass Frauen für vergleichbare Produkte und Dienstleistungen wie Rasierer und Haarschnitt mehr bezahlen als Männer, zuletzt umfangreich erhoben in New York 2015. Für Deutschland wurden von Verbraucherzentralen, von Medien und in Blogs ebenfalls viele solcher nach Geschlecht unterschiedlichen Preise identifiziert. Die vorliegende systematische Untersuchung zeigt erstmals umfassend, dass es in Deutschland keine pauschal höheren Preise für Frauen oder für pinke Produkte gibt. Einzelne Produkte und Dienstleistungsbereiche weisen jedoch nicht nachvollziehbare unterschiedliche Preise für Frauen und Männer auf. Einige Angebote verstoßen nach der vorliegenden rechtlichen Bewertung gegen das Allgemeine Gleichstellungsgesetz (AGG).

Schlagwörter:AGG; Antidiskriminierung; Gender Pricing

CEWS Kategorie:Gleichstellungspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Verfügbarkeit:https://www.antidiskriminierungsstelle.de/SharedDocs/Downloa...

Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht

Inhalt: Schon kurz nachdem die Studentenbewegung begonnen hatte, formierte sich innerhalb dieser neuen sozialen Bewegung eine Frauenopposition – eine Revolte innerhalb der Revolte. Frankfurt war neben Berlin einer der wichtigsten Schauplätze für den Kampf um Selbstbestimmung.

Schlagwörter:Frankfurt; Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung; Frauenbewegung; Frauengeschichte; Geschichte

CEWS Kategorie:Gleichstellungspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Verfügbarkeit:http://www.forschung-frankfurt.uni-frankfurt.de/72047849/FoF...

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Schlagwörter:Gender; Geschlechterforschung; Gleichstellung; Gleichstellungsbeauftragte; Professorinnenprogramm; Professur

CEWS Kategorie:Gleichstellungspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Wissenschaftspolitik

Verfügbarkeit:https://www.bundestag.de/blob/536708/f920fd8afc4c784a7bd0ce0...

Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht

Inhalt: In Sweden, support for right-wing xenophobic parties and neo-Nazi inspired organisations are on the increase, and are connected with, and manifested through, an emotional regime of hate directed towards feminism and towards women embodying feminist agendas. At the same time, feminist-inspired concerns about gender equality are often mobilised and appropriated for racist and anti-immigration arguments. The article explores this conjuncture between racism and anti-feminism as a political project, focusing particularly on how anti-feminist agendas act upon notions of trygghet (safety) and connects these to a nationalist and racist agenda. The article also explores the diverse ways in which self-identified antiracist feminists, many of them with migrant backgrounds and/or identifying as queer, confront these attacks and struggle for alternative understandings of safety that transcend hetero-patriarchal and ethno-nationalist agendas.

Schlagwörter:Anti-Feminismus; Care; Feminismus; Gender; Nationalismus; Nationalität; Rassismus; Rechtsextremismus; Schweden

CEWS Kategorie:Gleichstellungspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Verfügbarkeit:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027753951...

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz