Career confidence and gendered expectations of academic promotion

Baker, Maureen

doi:10.1177/1440783310371402

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“…Equally, being selected or singled out and explicitly encouraged to apply for promotion or senior positions was an important signifier for those women who lacked confidence and quite often the 'know-how.' This finding resonates with previous research both in the national context and internationally that women's lower confidence levels are influenced by a lack of collegial recognition and esteem [43,63]. Finally, there are indications that gender equality is now on the active agenda in a number of universities; however, while the policy imperative to promote gender equality presented opportunities for women, it was felt that the same policy allowed women to be used by the dominant group as tokens to legitimize the existing system, commodifying what Fitzgerald refers to as 'the cachet of women's diversity' [1] (p. 37).…”

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“…While they recognized that pressure to be visible and present had decreased to some degree over time, they were still of the view that bringing caring responsibilities to work could have a damaging impact on one's profile and ultimately on one's career progression. Again, resonating with research in the international context, participants in this study indicated that the competitive, entrepreneurial nature of the modern university provides significant challenges for those with caring responsibilities, but particularly for mothers [63]. Networks of support, both formal and informal, emerged as important in this study as women increasingly recognized the value of forming intellectual communities which could act in supportive, advisory, and strategic ways.…”

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confidence: 55%

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The Perspectives of Women Professors on the Professoriate: A Missing Piece in the Narrative on Gender Equality in the University

Harford

2018

Education Sciences

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Abstract:The under-representation of women in the professoriate is a widely acknowledged and complex phenomenon internationally. Ireland is no exception to this and indeed the issue of gender equality in Irish higher education has in the last 24 months emerged on the national policy agenda, largely as a result of a number of high profile legal cases and the subsequent setting up of an expert review panel (2015) and a gender equality taskforce (2017). What has now become clear internationally is that despite the advances women have made in terms of their participation rates as undergraduates, as well as the introduction of gender equity policies, the vast majority of professors in higher education institutions globally are men. Specifically, regarding Ireland in the period 2013-2015, even though 50% of the lecturer staff in universities were women, only 19% of professors were women. While the availability of such data is instructive, attention also needs to focus on examining the organizational culture and practices that appear to perpetuate such gender divisions and gendered patterns of action. On this, however, there is an almost complete absence of studies on the perspectives of women professors in Ireland on the professoriate. The study reported here, which was undertaken within the life story tradition, is one response to this deficit. It is based on interviews conducted with 21 women professors on their perspectives on working as professors in the university sphere in the period 2000-2017. Four key themes were generated during the analysis of their testimony: they regarded universities as operating according to male-definitions of merit; they made a strategic choice not to engage in senior management roles (Senior management is defined as occupying the role of Dean level or above.); they considered there was no room for caring responsibilities in universities; and they emphasized the importance of validation, selection, and networks of support.

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The Perspectives of Women Professors on the Professoriate: A Missing Piece in the Narrative on Gender Equality in the University

Harford

2018

Education Sciences

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“…La extensión de las agencias de evaluación de la calidad (Morley, 2005;Baker, 2010;Mountz et al, 2015) forma parte de este entramado siguiendo la lógica de la contabilización de méritos considerados excelentes. Las instituciones científicas consiguen mejorar sus indicadores gracias al paso de investigadores e investigadoras altamente competitivos que dejan un rastro significativo en las instituciones de acogida en forma de publicaciones, patentes, proyectos financiados y becas conseguidas, pero que han de marcharse cuando finaliza su beca o proyecto.…”

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“…La fuerte vinculación entre la internacionalización y la excelencia devalúa aquellas carreras menos internacionales y centradas en la creación de conocimientos locales. Los centros de investigación y las universidades están obligados a internacionalizar sus resultados para aumentar su competitividad y su posición en los rankings (Baker, 2010), por lo que, aquellas instituciones más orientadas a referentes locales y con menor orientación internacional parecen abocadas a producir resultados menos "excelentes".…”

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El impacto de las prácticas neo-gerencialistas en las trayectorias científicas de hombres y mujeres en tiempos de crisis

2016

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RESUMENLa incorporación paulatina de prácticas neoliberales en las organizaciones científicas ha dado lugar a profundos cambios en los modelos de carrera científica de hombres y mujeres. Actualmente, sus trayectorias se caracterizan por una intensa movilidad internacional y un modelo de progresión individualizada, puesto que las carreras profesionales no son sostenidas en una sola institución. La excelencia científica es el marco justificativo, ya que sólo aquellas personas que consigan un mayor número de méritos individuales podrán alcanzar las categorías superiores de la carrera profesional. Las políticas de austeridad imponen una constricción adicional, ya que los recursos para financiar nuevas incorporaciones e impulsar los procesos de promoción del personal de investigación se han reducido significativamente. Este trabajo se centra en las estrategias utilizadas por hombres y mujeres procedentes de distintas instituciones científicas donde operan diversos factores contextuales como las culturas científicas, el impacto de la crisis, etc. Los resultados muestran una variedad de situaciones sociales de hombres y mujeres en las instituciones científicas que, sin embargo, tratan de enfrentar las metas y prácticas que definen la excelencia científica. Palabras clave: Políticas neo-gerencialistas, capitalismo académico, carreras sin fronteras, sesgos de género. Ana González, Ester Conesa y Agnès Vayreda Impacto de las prácticas neo-gerencialistas 68Investigaciones Feministas Vol. 7 Núm 2 (2016) 67-87 The impact of the new managerial practices in the scientific trajectories of men and women in times of crisis ABSTRACTThe progressive incorporation of neoliberal practices in scientific organizations has provoked deep changes in the models of scientific career of men and women. Currently, their trajectories are characterized by intense international mobility and an individualized model of progression because professional careers are no longer sustained by one unique institution. Scientific excellence is the justificatory framework, since only those who reach a major number of individual merits will achieve the highest positions on the professional ladder. Austerity policies impose one additional constriction since resources for new enrollments and promotions have significantly decreased. This work focuses on the strategies used by men and women from different scientific institutions where various contextual factors operate, such as scientific culture, impact of the crisis, etc. The findings display a variety of social situations of men and women in scientific institutions that, however, try to deal with goals and practices that define scientific excellence.

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“…In the 1960s, New Zealand science, both in DSIR and in the universities, was dominated by male academics, with few women reaching the highest positions [Brooks, 1997;Baker, 2010;Gregory, 2014]. The international feminist movement of the 1970s and 80s, plus the election of the Helen Clark Labour Government in 1989, led to increased numbers of women in leadership in New Zealand [Curtin, 2008].…”

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confidence: 99%

The emergence of science communication in Aotearoa New Zealand

Fleming¹,

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2017

JCOM

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The history of science communication in Aotearoa New Zealand starts with the stories told by the indigenous Māori people and has often been rooted in large, controversial environmental or technological issues. Although science communication in New Zealand began with a culture of wise men informing an uneducated public, by the 1990s it had begun to explore ideas of public outreach and engagement. Driven in part by the country's landscape and unique wildlife, media such as film documentary have risen to take centre stage in public engagement with science. Public radio also features in discussion of scientific issues. New centres for the training of science communicators have emerged and there is governmental and public support for science communication in New Zealand, as demonstrated by the number of awards and funding opportunities offered annually, for those who achieve. However a more critical and strategic approach to science communication in the future is needed if New Zealand wants a more science-literate public, and a more public-literate science community.

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Career confidence and gendered expectations of academic promotion

Cited by 81 publications

References 19 publications

The Perspectives of Women Professors on the Professoriate: A Missing Piece in the Narrative on Gender Equality in the University

The Perspectives of Women Professors on the Professoriate: A Missing Piece in the Narrative on Gender Equality in the University

El impacto de las prácticas neo-gerencialistas en las trayectorias científicas de hombres y mujeres en tiempos de crisis

The emergence of science communication in Aotearoa New Zealand

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