Being an early career academic: is there space for gender equality in the neoliberal university?

2020 ◽  
pp. 16-34
Author(s):  
Viviana Meschitti
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Early Career

scholarly journals Dispositives of newness and change: academic organisations’ discursive practice at the intersection of excellence and gender

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Wieners ◽  
Susanne Maria Weber
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Excellence Initiative ◽  
Institutional Innovations ◽  
And Gender

AbstractOn the basis of a genealogical discourse analysis, Weber distinguishes four dispositives of creation. The ‘new’ is created and organised within systematic rationalities of creation. It emerges in (a) an organic cyclical transcendence, (b) a top-down pattern, (c) an entrepreneurial mode that designates man as creator and (d) a collective cyclical dynamic. The dispositives of man as creator and creation as an act are becoming particularly dominant in today’s academic organisations and these dispositives systematically produce institutional programmatics and organisational strategies. In this paper, we analyse how the new emerges in two academic organisations. The starting points of our analyses are two institutional innovations that emerged in Germany in the 2000s: the Excellence Initiative and the gender equality programme. Although they derive from different fields of discourse, both innovations share common features. The Excellence Initiative required universities to relate discourses of excellence and gender equality to each other, and this article investigates how the new emerges in academic organisations to understand whether these innovations produce equality or perpetuate traditional inequalities. Based on Foucault’s dispositive methodology, we use website analyses and interviews with gender equality officers and heads of early-career researchers’ departments. We highlight the discursive connections between gender and excellence for early-career researchers and outline various discursive organisational strategies.

scholarly journals Women in Environmental Sciences (WiES) and The UN SDGs: A Catalyst for Achieving a Sustainable Future for All

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 7116
Author(s):  
Cecilia Medupin
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Effective Interaction ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Environmental Sciences ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Uk

Women can serve as catalysts needed to achieve the United Nation’s Sustainable Development agenda by 2030. The Women in Environmental Sciences network engaged women from culturally and professionally diverse backgrounds at two workshops held in the UK in 2018 and 2019. The interdisciplinary environmental sciences’ meeting included presentations by leading women in academic and non-academic organizations. Through breakout sessions, effective interaction, and discussions between professionals and grassroots, an atmosphere of “leaving no one behind” was created. Participants’ ages ranged from 18 to 55 years and more than 65% of the participants were under 35 years old, representing the productive working group. The mixed group of young and the old, academic and non-academic women provided a basis for insightful and lively discussions needed to bridge the gap between information disseminated to professionals and non-professionals, to students, and early career researchers. In this article, the following information are presented: Relevant literature in view of gender equality and environmental aspects, summary of the talks and discussions, how the talks aligned with the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and sub-targets, issues identified and avenues for change, evaluation and some quotations from the participants. The article showcases the opportunity for the implementation of SDGs in all organizations through the promotion of integrated discussions on environmental science aspects, gender, equality, diversity, inclusion, partnerships needed to inform effective policy changes at local, national, or global levels. This article provides insights to professionals/non-professionals, governmental, non-governmental organizations, higher education institutions, and local communities and women. By providing a summary of the talks and their alignment with SDGs, the Women in Environmental Sciences provide new ways of engagement required at these times to develop applied and strategic research, and open a dimension of how the SDGs can be implemented to cope with changing environmental conditions.

scholarly journals Gender Equality in Gambling Student Funding: A Brief Report

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-75
Author(s):  
Carrie Leonard ◽  
Victoria Violo
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Gender Disparity ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Funding Agency ◽  
Graduate Degree ◽  
Student Funding ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Degree Level

Acknowledgement of gender disparity in academia has been made in recent years, as have efforts to reduce this inequality. These efforts will be undermined if insufficient numbers of women qualify and are competitive for academic careers. The gender ratio at each graduate degree level has been examined in some studies, with findings suggesting that women’s representation has increased, and in some recent cases, achieved equality. These findings are promising as they could indicate that more women will soon qualify for early-career academic positions. Most of these studies, however, examine a specific—or narrow subset—of academic disciplines. Therefore, it remains unclear if these findings generalize across disciplines. Gambling researchers, and the graduate students they supervise, are a uniquely heterogeneous group representing multiple academic disciplines including health sciences, math, law, psychology, and sociology, among many more. Thus, gambling student researchers are a group who can be examined for gender equality at postgraduate levels, while reducing the impact of discipline specificity evident in previous investigations. The current study examined graduate-level scholarships from one Canadian funding agency (Alberta Gambling Research Institute), awarded from 2009 through 2019, for gender parity independent of academic discipline.

scholarly journals Daughter-mother perspectives on feminist activism in the academy

Organization ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 135050842110612
Author(s):  
Florence Reedy ◽  
Kathryn Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Senior Leaders ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Academic Activism ◽  
Feminist Perspectives

This article addresses feminist solidarity between a daughter and a mother in academia. We are respectively a PhD student and aspirant early career academic, and a senior academic, both identifying as feminists and engaging in forms of activism to improve gender equality. We take an autoethnographical approach, drawing from vignettes and conversational dialogues, focusing on feminist perspectives, activism, our contested identities, fears and hopes. We reflect on the challenges of living feminist lives whilst working in gendered university institutions and highlight strategies to enact feminism whilst trying to progress and maintain an academic career at different positions on the career spectrum. Our contribution is to highlight differential experiences and understandings of academic activism between daughter and mother, early-career academics and senior leaders, in order to enhance mutual understanding and action on feminist solidarity and praxis in the academy.

scholarly journals Importance of Early Career Designing—Report on “the Symposium of Promoting Gender Equality and for Encouraging Young Researchers”—

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-164
Author(s):  
Ryuma SATO ◽  
Lumi NEGISHI ◽  
Kaori TSUTSUI ◽  
Takahisa NAKAI
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Young Researchers

Implementing measures to promote gender equality and career opportunities of early career researchers

2018 ◽  
pp. 209-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Holzinger ◽  
Helene Schiffbänker ◽  
Sybille Reidl ◽  
Silvia Hafellner ◽  
Jürgen Streicher
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Promote Gender Equality

scholarly journals Science (without) youth: Gendering Early Academic Careers in Slovenia

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-93
Author(s):  
Ana Hofman
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Early Stages

How is it possible to foster gender equality in academia if the academic field is gradually marked by precarity, particularly in the early stages of academic careers? How do early career scholars deal with the challenges of their professional environments and what are the potential strategies of structural change that can contribute to the improvement of equal opportunities in academia? These are the questions that Science (without) Youth: Gendering Early Careers in Slovenia [Znanost (brez) mladih: Zgodnje stopnje znanstvene kariere skozi perspektivo spola] raises and strives to discuss in its introduction and the seven chapters that follow. The book is a result of the GARCIA project that targets combating gender inequalities in academia by taking an innovative approach – focusing on researchers in non-tenured, temporary positions.

The Social Origins and Provenance of the English Bishops during the Reign of Edward II

1959 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 51-79
Author(s):  
K. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Early Career ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Edward Ii ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complete Study ◽  
History Of

During the last twenty or twenty-five years medieval historians have been much interested in the composition of the English episcopate. A number of studies of it have been published on periods ranging from the eleventh to the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. A further paper might well seem superfluous. My reason for offering one is that most previous writers have concentrated on analysing the professional circles from which the bishops were drawn, and suggesting the influences which their early careers as royal clerks, university masters and students, secular or regular clergy, may have had on their later work as bishops. They have shown comparatively little interest in their social background and provenance, except for those bishops who belonged to magnate families. Some years ago, when working on the political activities of Edward II's bishops, it seemed to me that social origins, family connexions and provenance might in a number of cases have had at least as much influence on a bishop's attitude to politics as his early career. I there fore collected information about the origins and provenance of these bishops. I now think that a rather more careful and complete study of this subject might throw further light not only on the political history of the reign, but on other problems connected with the character and work of the English episcopate. There is a general impression that in England in the later middle ages the bishops' ties with their dioceses were becoming less close, and that they were normally spending less time in diocesan work than their predecessors in the thirteenth century.

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