Inhalt: Unequal distribution of child rearing and domestic responsibilities between parents contributes to gender inequity, a wicked problem in Australia. Inequitable parental leave policies at Australian public Universities place the burden of care squarely on the mother, diminishing or absenting the father. We examine how the gendered nature of the existing policies are constructed in ways that create inequities and discourage their uptake. A post-structural feminist lens provides us with a theoretical vantage point from which this wicked problem can be problematized. We present three recommendations for enabling more equitable outcomes for parents. The first is to eradicate the punitive approach and support flexibility; second, the policies must be parental leave in name, provision and practice; and finally we recommend a minimum parental leave standard for Australian universities nationally. These findings have policy-level significance for redressing parental leave inequity within the Australian university context. The paper concludes with theoretical contributions, practical implications, and suggestions for future research.

Schlagwörter:Australia; Australien; Elternschaft; gender inequality; Geschlechterungleichheit; higher education; Mutter; parental leave; Universität; university; Vater

CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf, Hochschulen

Verfügbarkeit:https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12880

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: "The Gender-Sensitive University explores the prevailing forces that pose obstacles to driving a gender-sensitive university, which include the emergence of far-right movements that seek to subvert advances towards gender equality and managerialism that promotes creeping corporatism. This book demonstrates that awareness of gender equality and gender sensitivity are essential for pulling contemporary academia back from the brink. New forms of leadership are fundamental to reforming our institutions. The concept of a gender-sensitive university requires re-envisioning academia to meet these challenges, as does a different engagement of men and a shift towards fluidity in how gender is formulated and performed. Academia can only be truly gender-sensitive if, learning from the past, it can avoid repeating the same mistakes and addressing existing and new biases. The book chapters analyse these challenges and advocate the possibilities to 'fix it forward' in all areas. Representing ten EU countries and multiple disciplines, contributors to this volume highlight the evidence of persistent gender inequalities in academia, while advocating a blueprint for addressing them. The book will be of interest to a global readership of students, academics, researchers, practitioners, academic and political leaders and policy makers who share an interest in what it takes to establish gender-sensitive universities"--

Schlagwörter:awareness; EU; Gender; gender equality; gender pay gap; Genderkompetenz; Geschlechterbegriff; Geschlechtergerechtigkeit; Gleichstellungspolitik; higher education; Hochschule; Männlichkeit; sexual violence; sexualisierte Gewalt; sexualized violence; work-life balance

CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis, Gleichstellungspolitik, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt

Verfügbarkeit:https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003001348

Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk

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: Bad Honnef, 9. Februar 2021 – Seit April 2020 leben ca. 80% aller Arbeitskräfte weltweit aufgrund der COVID-19-Pandemie mit obligatorischen oder empfohlenen Schließungen von Arbeitsplätzen. Arbeitskräfte sind gezuwungen von Zuhause aus zu arbeiten. Bei der Arbeit im Homeoffice führen die fehlende Trennung von Beruf und Familie sowie die zusätzliche Belastung durch Homeschooling zu Stress, insbesondere bei Frauen. Das zeigt eine weltweit angelegte Online-Umfrage des Arbeitskreises Chancengleichheit der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (DPG), an der zwischen Mitte April und Ende Juni 2020 über 1500 überwiegend aus Europa stammende Beschäftigte teilnahmen. 70 Prozent der Befragten hatten eine akademische Position inne und 43 Prozent einen Hintergrund in Physik. Paare (ohne Kinder) im Alter zwischen 30 und 39 Jahren mit mehr als zehn Jahren Berufserfahrung stellten dabei die größte Gruppe dar. Die hauptsächlichen Stressfaktoren bei der Arbeit im Homeoffice waren die fehlende Trennung von Beruf und Familie sowie das Gefühl der Isolation. Weibliche Teilnehmende bewerteten diese Stressfaktoren signifikant höher als männliche. Der am häufigsten genannte Begriff in Freitextfeldern war dementsprechend „mangelnde Work-Life-Balance“ gefolgt von „Homeschooling“ und „emotionalen und mentalen Problemen“. Führungskräfte litten dabei mehr unter Stress durch Homeoffice als Personen ohne Führungsaufgaben. Trotzdem waren sie mit der Leistung ihrer Mitarbeiter sehr zufrieden. Europäische Akademikerinnen sorgten sich insbesondere um negative soziale Auswirkungen; die häufigste Sorge bei europäischen Männern war hingegen eine finanzielle Stagnation bzw. Rezession für die Zeit nach der Pandemie. Das betraf vor allem Nichtakademier. Am meisten vermisst wurde das fehlende Feedback von Managern bzw. Kollegen. Bei der Analyse der Freitexteinträge zeichnen sich zwei Gruppen ab: Eine Gruppe war überzeugt, dass die Pandemie eine Chance ist, Fernarbeit und Fernunterricht zu reformieren. Die zweite Gruppe fürchtete dagegen, dass der verstärkte Einsatz von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien die herkömmlichen Arbeitsinstrumente und -methoden ersetzen könnte. 40 Prozent aller fürchteten den Verlust ihres Arbeitsplatzes. Viele (35 Prozent) sorgten sich allerdings auch um den Wegfall der Möglichkeit, nach der Covid-19-Krise weiter im Homeoffice arbeiten zu können. Das betraf fast die Hälfte der weiblichen Akademiker in Europa und 26 Prozent der männlichen.

Schlagwörter:COVID-19; Geschlechtervergleich; internationaler Vergleich; Physik; survey; Vereinbarkeit

CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf, Wissenschaft als Beruf

Verfügbarkeit:https://www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentlichungen/vereinigungen/...

Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht

Inhalt: The International Network on Leave Policies and Research has been producing an annual review of leave policies and related research since 2005. The review covers Maternity, Paternity and Parental leaves; leave to care for sick children and other employment-related measures to support working parents; and early childhood education and care policy. The review is based on country notes from each participating country, prepared by members of the network and edited by several of the network’s coordinators. Each country note follows a standard format: details of different types of leave; the relationship between leave policy and early childhood education and care policy; recent policy developments; information on take-up of leave. The review also includes definitions of the main types of leave policies; and cross-country comparisons. These comparative overviews cover: each main type of leave; the relationship between leave and ECEC entitlements; and policy changes and developments since the previous review. The 2020 review covers 45 countries - and childcare and leave policy responses to COVID-19.

Schlagwörter:Care; COVID-19; Elternzeit; Forschungsstand; internationaler Vergleich; maternity leave; Mutterschutz; Policy; Review

CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf

Verfügbarkeit:https://ub-deposit.fernuni-hagen.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServ...

Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht

Inhalt: OVID‐19 is dramatically reconfiguring paid work and care. Emerging evidence in the global media suggests that academic women with caring responsibilities are being proportionately impacted. This article fills a key knowledge gap by examining how Australian universities are supporting academics to manage remote work and caring during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We conducted a desktop analysis of public information about remote working and care from 41 Australian universities and compared them to the world’s top 10 ranked universities. Findings suggest that during the pandemic, the Australian higher education sector positions decisions about caring leave and participation in the paid labour force as ‘private’ matters in which employees (mainly women) design their own ‘solutions’ when compared with international institutional counterparts. We argue that COVID‐19 provides another context in which universities have evaded their responsibility to ensure women’s full participation in the labour force.

Schlagwörter:Australia; Australien; Care; COVID-19; familiäre Verpflichtung; Geschlechterungleichheit; Hochschule; Sorgearbeit

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

Verfügbarkeit:https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12484

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: Women remain underrepresented in senior positions within universities and report barriers to career progression. Drawing on the concepts of Foucault and Bourdieu, with an emphasis on technologies of the self, this article aims to understand mothers’ academic career experiences. Interviews were conducted with 35 non‐STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine) academics in Scotland and Australia, to reveal the gender dimensions of parents’ academic careers, in neoliberal university contexts. The data suggest that there are tensions between organizational policies, such as maternity leave and flexible work, and the contemporary demands of academic labour. New managerial discourses which individualize and make use of moral systems are particularly effectual in driving women to take up marketized research activity and compromise leave entitlements.

Schlagwörter:Australien; Bourdieu, Pierre; Elternschaft; Elternzeit; flexible Arbeitsbedingungen; flexible labor; Foucault, Michel; Großbritannien; Hochschule; Interview; Karriereentwicklung; Mutter; neoliberal university; Organisationshandeln; UK; Universität; Unterrepräsentanz; Vereinbarkeit

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

Verfügbarkeit:https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12314

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: This article explores Norwegian female academics' experiences with academic motherhood in an organizational perspective. A main finding is that academia as an organization is greedy, uncertain, and has ‘blind spots' that reveal gender bias related to gender and parental status, especially mothers. By analysing the link between gendered organization of work and the legitimatizing of gender inequality, the article reveals ‘gender blindness' in the academic organization concerning gender and parental status. The article concludes that changes in academia — in line with academic capitalism — may indicate that the Norwegian model of work–life balance is under pressure. This article suggests that the organizational conditions for academic motherhood are important factors in order to understand the persistence of gender inequality.

Schlagwörter:Elternschaft; gender in academia; gender inequality; gendered organization; Geschlechterungleichheit; Hochschule; Mutterschaft; Norwegen; Vereinbarkeit; Wissenschaft; work-life balance

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

Verfügbarkeit:https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12368

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: “May” children, holiday babies and post-tenure pregnancies: these are some of the labels attached to women’s choices of having children in an academic environment. Academic women seem to share a common burden in scheduling their maternity plans: to survive in academia and advance through the faculty ranks, women tend either to give birth during vacation time, or to postpone their motherhood status to the end of their probation period and the achievement of tenure. The end result is, generally, an underrepresentation of women in higher academic positions (also known as the “leaking pipe problem”), lower salaries, lower research outcomes and rates of promotion, lower fertility, and higher rates of family dissolution – while family and children seem to have either no impact or even a positive effect on the patterns of men’s performance in the academic ranks. Thus, motherhood and professional achievements appear as conflicting goals even for women in academia, an environment that is usually praised for its flexibility in terms of working hours and thus family friendliness. In this paper, Vera Troeger, Professor of Quantitative Political Economy at the University of Warwick and Research Theme Leader at the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) looks at the effect of maternity benefits on the career opportunities of women in academia.

Schlagwörter:Elternschaft; Elternzeit; Geschlechterunterschied; Großbritannien; Karriereentwicklung; leaky pipeline; Mutterschaft; Mutterschutz; Tenure Track; Wissenschaftlerin

CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf, Wissenschaft als Beruf

Verfügbarkeit:http://www.smf.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/CAGE-briefin...

Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht

Schlagwörter:Arbeitszeitflexibilität; EU; work-life balance

CEWS Kategorie:Arbeitswelt und Arbeitsmarkt, Europa und Internationales, Vereinbarkeit Familie-Beruf

Verfügbarkeit:https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites/default/files/ef_publi...

Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht