Indicators of esteem: gender and prestige in academic work

Coate, Kelly; Howson, Camille Kandiko

doi:10.1080/01425692.2014.955082

Cited by 76 publications

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“…Often, the concern is women's access to professorial or top managerial positions. In Ireland, Coate and Kandiko Howson (2016), Lynch, Grummel, andDevine (2012) andO'Connor (2014) have shown that promotion criteria and mechanisms reflect gendered norms, favouring hegemonic masculine behaviours, primarily through excluding those mostly womenwho have had career interruptions. In the Netherlands, Van den Brink and Benschop (2012) document how gendered networking practices and the endurance and pervasiveness of the 'male success model' ensure that gatekeepers favour recruiting men into professorial positions.…”

Section: Gender Inequality In Academia: Looking Downward Not Upwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Not one of the family’: Gender and precarious work in the neoliberal university

O’Keefe

Courtois

2019

Gender Work & Organization

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Gender inequality within the university is well documented but proposals to tackle it tend to focus on the higher ranks, ignoring how it manifests within precarious work. Based on data collected as part of a broader participatory action research project on casual academic labour in Irish higher education, the article focuses on the intersection of precarious work and gender in academia. We argue that precarious female academics are non‐citizens of the academy, a status that is reproduced through exploitative gendered practices and evident in formal/legal recognition (staff status, rights and entitlements, pay and valuing of work) as well as in informal dimensions (social and decision‐making power). We, therefore, conclude that any attempts to challenge gender inequality in academia must look downward, not upward, to the ranks of the precarious academics.

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Section: Gender Inequality In Academia: Looking Downward Not Upwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Not one of the family’: Gender and precarious work in the neoliberal university

O’Keefe

Courtois

2019

Gender Work & Organization

100

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“…Research has also shown that the impact of social capital on gender structures and academic identity has become more apparent than ever (Coate & Howson, 2016). As Guarino and Borden (2017) and Walker and Yoon (2017) have argued, variations in the acquisition of social capital are highly dependent on power and gender; gender as a social relation affects the structures, attributes and values at work (see also Angervall & Beach, 2017).…”

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Academic career: on institutions, social capital and gender

Angervall

Gustafsson

Silfver

2018

Higher Education Research & Development

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During decades of change in the Western higher education sector, new ways of understanding academic work have reinforced notions of the impact of social capital. The present study investigates researchers' experiences of their own career making within two areas of Education Sciences in Swedish higher education: Childhood Studies (CS) and Science Education (SE). The structure at the CS departments is collaborative and integrated; teaching and research are seen as an entity. This structure creates a coherent career path where members of the collective group jointly produce and accumulate social capital; it also appears to be related to discourses of femininity. In the SE departments, the career structure is strategic and differentiated; the two career paths work in parallel through a differentiation between teaching and research. This appears to be related to discourses of masculinity.In conclusion, our analysis shows how social capital and gender mutually create different ways of doing an academic career. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Competition is being relayed through the audit culture (Morley 2003), the prestige economy (Coate and Kandiko Howson 2014), knowledge mobilisation and the recently introduced research impact agenda (Colley 2013), financialisation of research targets and students, marketization and privatisation. These are presented as reforms designed to 'modernise' the sector, and reassure taxpayers that their investments are generating healthy returns.…”

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