Exzellente Hasardeurinnen. Beschäftigungsbedingungen, und Geschlechterungleichheit auf dem wissenschaftlichen Arbeitsmarkt

Beaufaÿs, Sandra; Löther, Andrea

doi:10.5771/0342-300x-2017-5-348

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“…On the other hand, precarious working and qualification conditions, such as the high proportion of fixed-term contracts, the almost exclusive orientation of scientific careers toward obtaining a professorship, and the intensified competition for professorships, are factors that may run counter to the objectives of the Women Professors Program. Women are more frequently affected by fixed-term and part-time contracts (see Beaufaÿs and Löther 2017;Courtois and O'Keefe 2015;Nikunen 2014). Furthermore, they have less occupational and non-occupational resources at their disposal with which to strengthen their position in the competition for academic advancement.…”

Section: Program Theory and Contextmentioning

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Is It Working? An Impact Evaluation of the German “Women Professors Program”

Löther

2019

Social Sciences

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The Women Professors Program, which was initiated in Germany in 2008, aims to increase the proportion of women professors and to promote structural change in favour of gender equality at higher education institutions (HEIs). It is one of the central gender equality policies in higher education in Germany. The present study evaluates the impact of the program by estimating its causal effects on the proportion of women professors. By adopting a quasi-experimental approach and using a unique dataset—a long term census of German HEIs—the study proves that the proportion of women professors increased more than would have been expected in the absence of the program. Although the evaluation includes preliminary estimates of mechanisms driving the described impacts, the integration of context factors and mechanisms into the assessment of the impact of gender equality policies remains a desideratum. The study shows that the program is working, and it contributes to redressing the lack of impact studies on gender equality in science and research.

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Section: Program Theory and Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is It Working? An Impact Evaluation of the German “Women Professors Program”

Löther

2019

Social Sciences

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“…The “initiative” has attracted considerable attention from academic researchers and political commentators, particularly in the years after it started [35–39], but also more recently [8–17]. Most studies have looked into the “initiative’s” consequences on the public university system, with almost exclusive focus either on the university level (“elite universities”) or the entire higher education system level (“university system”).…”

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“…The "initiative" has attracted considerable attention from academic researchers and political commentators, particularly in the years after it started [35][36][37][38][39], but also more recently [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17].…”

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Field size as a predictor of "excellence." The selection of subject fields in Germany's Excellence Initiative.

Heinze,

Habicht,

Eberhardt

et al. 2024

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We investigate the selection of subject fields in Germany's "excellence initiative," a two-phase funding scheme administered by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 2005 to 2017 to increase international competitiveness of scientific research at German universities. While most empirical studies have examined the "excellence initiative's" effects at the university level ("elite universities"), we focus on subject fields within universities. Based on both descriptive and logistic regression analyses, we find that the "excellence initiative" reveals a stable social order of public universities based on organizational size, that field selection is biased toward those fields with many professors and considerable grant funding, and that funding success in the second phase largely follows decisions from the first phase. We discuss these results and suggest avenues for future research.

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