scholarly journals Micro Change Agents for Gender Equality: Transforming European Research Performing Organizations

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Dahmen-Adkins ◽  
Helen Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
European Research ◽  
Collaborative Reflection ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Monitoring Tools ◽  
Personal Motivation

This article explores the experiences of micro change agents for gender equality in seven European Research Performing Organizations in seven different countries. The micro change agents were all participants of an international collaborative project consortium, implementing gender equality plans (GEPs), and funded by the European Commission during 4 years. The analysis draws on empirical data consisting of information submitted by the micro change agents during these 4 years and collected using three different monitoring tools, developed within the project to follow the progress of the implementation efforts, but also to provide an arena for individual and collaborative reflection and knowledge exchange between the partners. The aim of the article is to present a systematic analysis of the change practices that these micro change agents experienced as useful and important for promoting gender equality in their different organizational contexts. A total of six such micro change practices are identified, emerging from the empirical data: 1. communicating, 2. community building, 3. building trust and legitimacy, 4. accumulating and using resources, 5. using and transferring knowledge, and 6. drawing on personal motivation. The findings illustrate the multifaceted character of micro change agency for gender equality, particularly in a time-limited project context with a designated funding period. The results from this study can be useful when developing gender equality strategies, policies and practices and can also be used to empower gender equality micro change agents that face challenges while trying to implement GEPs and promote structural change in any kind of institution.

scholarly journals The How, What and When of Project Monitoring Facilitating Successful Implementation of Gender Equality Plans in European Research Institutions

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Dahmen-Adkins ◽  
Helen Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
European Research ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Monitoring Tools ◽  
Change Projects ◽  
Project Monitoring ◽  
Project Data ◽  
The Right

This paper focuses on monitoring as a key component of successful structural change projects. Project monitoring is usually defined as an on-going collection of project data in order to assess whether a project is going in the right direction and follows the pace and stages set beforehand. This paper elaborates on the how, what and when of successful project monitoring and describes the strategies and approaches to monitoring that was used in the international, collaborative project GenderTime. In this project seven different tailor-made gender equality plans (GEPs) were implemented in seven research institutions in seven European countries. The seven GEPs contained a very diverse set of over 100 actions to improve gender equality and strengthen the position of women researchers in these institutions. GEPs are inherently complex, constructed to solve complicated, multi-dimensional and contextually dependent problems concerning gender inequality. The project data in GenderTime, that needed to be monitored, was thus characterized by being qualitative diverse and quantitatively extensive. This paper describes the monitoring strategy that was developed to fit this context and the monitoring tools that were designed and implemented. The overall aim of the paper is to share and disseminate the knowledge gained regarding monitoring during the four years of the project.

Choosing the Leader

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Matthew N. Green ◽  
Douglas B. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Early Research ◽  
Vote Choice ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Leadership Selection ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Leadership Elections ◽  
The Common

This book attempts to fill the gap in the understanding of how congressional leaders are chosen. It offers the first systematic analysis of party leadership elections in Congress since the 1970s, looking in particular at how election campaigns unfold and the factors driving lawmakers' vote choice when vacancies occur or challenges erupt against sitting leaders. This chapter begins with a brief review of the House's major elected party leadership positions. It then discusses the common wisdom about congressional leadership elections and the limits of early research on the topic. Next, it introduces a new theory of leadership selection and explain how candidates, campaigns, and political context contribute to the factors that shape legislators' vote choice for a leader. It then introduces the empirical data used in this study, describes the testing methodology, and outlines the chapters that follow.

scholarly journals Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes for Health Benefit Package Design – Part II: A Practical Guide

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wija Oortwijn ◽  
Maarten Jansen ◽  
Rob Baltussen
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Stakeholder Involvement ◽  
Health Benefit ◽  
Companion Paper ◽  
Benefit Package ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Package Design ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Deliberative Processes

Background. Countries around the world are using health technology assessment (HTA) for health benefit package design. Evidence-informed deliberative processes (EDPs) are a practical and stepwise approach to enhance legitimate health benefit package design based on deliberation between stakeholders to identify, reflect and learn about the meaning and importance of values, informed by evidence on these values. This paper reports on the development of practical guidance on EDPs, while the conceptual framework of EDPs is described in a companion paper. Methods. The first guide on EDPs (2019) is further developed based on academic knowledge exchange, surveying 27 HTA bodies and 66 experts around the globe, and the implementation of EDPs in several countries. We present the revised steps of EDPs and how selected HTA bodies (in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Scotland, Thailand and the United Kingdom) organize key issues of legitimacy in their processes. This is based on a review of literature via PubMed and HTA bodies’ websites. Results. HTA bodies around the globe vary considerable in how they address legitimacy (stakeholder involvement ideally through participation with deliberation; evidence-informed evaluation; transparency; and appeal) in their processes. While there is increased attention for improving legitimacy in decision-making processes, we found that the selected HTA bodies are still lacking or just starting to develop activities in this area. We provide recommendations on how HTA bodies can improve on this. Conclusion. The design and implementation of EDPs is in its infancy. We call for a systematic analysis of experiences of a variety of countries, from which general principles on EDPs might subsequently be inferred.

Top women managers as change agents in the machista context of Mexico

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 321-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvador Barragan ◽  
Mariana I. Paludi ◽  
Albert Mills
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women Managers ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Promote Gender Equality

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on top women managers who act as change agents in the machista culture of Mexico. Specifically, the authors centre the attention not only on the strategies performed by these change agents to reduce inequality, but also on understanding the way in which they discursively reproduce or challenge essentialist notions of gender with respect to the cultural and organizational context. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 top women managers in Mexico who are actively involved as change agents. A feminist poststructuralist methodological framework using critical discourse analysis was used to uncover competing notions of gender and related strategies developed to promote gender equality. Findings The analysis reveals that the 12 change agents perform strategies for inclusion, and only half of them engage in strategies for re-evaluation. The authors were unable to recognize whether these change agents are engaged in strategies of transformation. These change agents also reproduce and challenge “essentialist” notions of gender. In some instances – based on their own career experiences and gendered identities – they (un)consciously have adopted essentialism to fit into the cultural context of machista society. They also challenge the gender binary to eradicate essentialist notions of gender that created gender inequalities in the first place. Research limitations/implications The experience of these 12 top women managers may not represent the voice of other women and their careers. Ultimately, intersections with class, organizational level, nationality, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation must be taken into account so to represent other women’s particular interests with respect to equality. Practical implications For those researchers-consultants who may be involved in an intervention strategy, it is important to focus on helping the change agents in reviewing and reflecting on their own “vision of gender equity”. During the strategic activities of mentoring and training, these change agents could potentially “leak” a particular “vision of gender” to other women and men. Thus, part of the intervention strategy should target the change agent’s self-reflection to influence her capacity to act as change agents. Originality/value The authors contribute to the literature on change agents and interventions for gender equality. Intervention strategies usually centre on essentialist notions of gender. The study offers potential explanations for this approach by paying attention to the process of how change agents, in their efforts to promote gender equality, may be unconsciously projecting their own identities onto others and/or consciously engaging in strategic essentialism to fit into the machista context of Mexico.

The Discursive Resistance of Men to Gender-equality Interventions: Negotiating “Unjustness” and “Unnecessity” in Swedish Forestry

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Johansson ◽  
Elias Andersson ◽  
Maria Johansson ◽  
Gun Lidestav
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Empirical Base ◽  
Same Gender ◽  
Old Men

This article adds to the understanding of men’s discursive resistance in relation to gender-equality interventions at work. Using Swedish men forestry professionals as the empirical base, the result shows how discursive resistance were performative acts, part of the construction of the same gender-equality interventions and organizational contexts that they were perceived to describe. In this case, direct opposition to gender equality provided a limited discursive position and sets of logics available in practice. Instead, the possibilities to renegotiate gender-equality interventions as unjust and unnecessary required, we conclude that the industry’s ambition to hire and promote more women was perceived to have led to the use of affirmative action and the disruption of meritocratic principles and that the problems of gender equality were placed in the traditional forestry and among “prejudiced old men,” as oppose to the more “modern” and “women friendly” forestry of today.

scholarly journals GENDER INEQUALITY IN THE LABOR MARKET OF UKRAINE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 10-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Yefanova ◽  
T. Martsenyuk
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Female Employees ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Women Participation

This article examines the law regulation of the gender equality, and analyzes the phenomenon of gender (in)equalitythe in the labor market in Ukraine in general and IT sphere in particular. Three factors that determine the low level of women participation in the IT sector are being highlighted: structural, organizational, and individual. Aspects of gender segregation in the field of IT in Ukraine are being illustrated by the empirical data gathered from in-depth interviews with female employees of IT companies.

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