Women's professional choice in geography: National sentiments and national exclusion

Geographies of education and the significance of children, youth and families

“…Sometimes there are public struggles over this, as Collins (2006) reveals when he traces the importance of the public/private distinction in debates about the appropriateness of using books in schools which portray particular sexual identities (see also Collins, 2007, on the spatiality inherent in debate about the place of religion in American public schools). Equally important is research which looks at the role of the feminisation and masculinisation of the teaching profession in curriculum development and identity formation (Bondi and Domosh, 1992;Blumen, 2002).…”

The Academic Conference and the Status of Women: The Annual Meetings of the Israeli Geographical Society*

“…This proportion is considerably lower than the national average (of all research universities) and lower than that in the social sciences (20.9 percent), and is similar to that in science and engineering (except for biology; see Alterman and Toren 1997). As may be expected, the share of women among juniors and doctoral students is higher, and is estimated to be approximately 50 percent (Blumen 1999;Kark 2000). 1 At all Israeli universities only two of the three women geographers who are identified with gender and feminist research are currently based in a department of geography, 2 and only a handful of senior Israeli geographers legitimize the study of gender by occasionally incorporating it into their research (e.g., Kellerman 1989, 55-73;Kipnis 1989,74-76;Kark and Glass 1993, 96-108;Ben-Artzi 1995Katz and Neuman 1996).…”

“…For example, in 1996 women's share in the Israeli labor force reached 46 percent; in academic and scientific occupations they comprised 48 percent, but their proportion in senior staff in academia was only 20.4 percent (Alterman and Toren 1997;Israel Central Bureau of Statistics 1997). Within Israeli academia, geography appears especially maledominated: between 1984 and 1998 the number of women geographers on the senior academic staff in the five departments of geography in Israeli research universities increased from four to seven, reaching 8.2 percent (Waterman 1985;Blumen 1999). This proportion is considerably lower than the national average (of all research universities) and lower than that in the social sciences (20.9 percent), and is similar to that in science and engineering (except for biology; see Alterman and Toren 1997).…”

“…Today only one course on gender is offered by the departments of geography. In 1999, the five departments offered four gender courses, two of which were on gender and planning (Blumen 1999) and three of which were taught by two junior faculty who are no longer in these departments.…”

“…13, andthe symposium in Vol. 28, 2004), and particularly in Israel (Blumen 1999(Blumen , 2002bKark 2000). After reviewing the place of women and gender in Israeli geography and highlighting some key events in the development of the IGS, we turn to the Society's books of abstracts of its annual meetings to evaluate changes in the place of women and gender in this arena.…”