Intersectional barriers to women’s advancement in higher education institutions rewarded for their gender equity plans

Crimmins, Gail; Casey, Sarah; Tsouroufli, Maria

doi:10.1080/09540253.2023.2238737

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“…However, data shows that female CEOs benefit businesses. Crimmins, Casey, & Tsouroufli (2023) found that sexism threatens female employees' mental health. It might be exhausting to work as hard as men without being recognized.…”

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Gender Equality in the Workplace: Strategies for Promoting Women's Empowerment

2024

Journal of Informatics Education and Research

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This study focuses on gender equality in the workplace and strategies for promoting women's empowerment. Despite progress in recent years, gender inequality in the workplace remains a significant concern. The study highlights the low percentage of women in paid employment and the persistent gender pay gap. Women also face barriers in accessing leadership roles and experience discrimination and harassment. The study suggests several strategies for promoting gender equality. These include implementing inclusive policies that combat unconscious bias, promoting work-life balance, and ensuring job stability. The study also emphasizes the importance of mentorship programs in supporting women's professional development. Additionally, the study highlights the need for organizations to increase diversity through hiring practices and to implement diversity and inclusion policies. The findings of the study underscore the importance of gender equality in the workplace for both businesses and society as a whole. The study emphasizes the need for a comprehensive approach to promoting gender equality, including addressing barriers, implementing best practices, and fostering an inclusive culture. By doing so, organizations can create an environment that empowers women and promotes their success, leading to a healthier and more prosperous society.

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Gender Equality in the Workplace: Strategies for Promoting Women's Empowerment

2024

Journal of Informatics Education and Research

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Data snapshots of the access and participation of ‘women’ academics in UK universities: Questioning continued gendered, racialised and geopolitical inequalities

Belluigi,

Arday,

O'Keeffe

2024

British Educational Res J

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Replete with espoused discourses of equality, diversity and inclusion within public bodies, is the UK, wherein lauded initiatives reward its universities’ commitments to increasing the access and positioning of ‘women’ in higher education. This paper contributes a critical quantitative analysis of the state of representation and participation of academic staff within these universities generally, and the majority‐female discipline of education particularly. Education is important because it has a direct relation to social change and ethicality. It may maintain or reproduce the status quo; however, exercising its transformative potential is essential for the success of various international frameworks aiming to address global inequality, including most recently the Sustainable Development Goals. Sensitised by QuantCrit principles, a descriptive statistical exploration was undertaken of the staff composition and employment conditions captured within the administrative datasets reported on academic staff by all the public universities in the devolved nations of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from 2015 to 2020. The findings of this study confirmed: (i) the continuation of gendered inequalities across the academic hierarchy, particularly as the pyramid narrows to the assigned intellectual leadership position of ‘professor’; (ii) racialised, gendered inequalities in access to employment, and in positioning once employed; and (iii) more adverse conditions where gendered, racialised and geopolitical inequalities intersect, most extremely for Black African female academics. The study demonstrates that the centring of ‘race’ and consideration of nationality are required to challenge coloniality, and to bring to the fore the differential impacts of systems of discrimination within this globally influential sector.

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