This volume examines the criteria of excellence producing inequalities of gender in the daily working environment and evaluation of academics.
Policymakers have increasingly placed emphasis on gender equality as part of a strategy for achieving research excellence, and efforts to reduce gender bias have become mainstream. This book suggests that this goal has remained elusive in practice due to continuing under-representation of women across many academic and scientific fields. Questioning the old structures of male dominance still prevalent in national research policy, the book explores the effects of institutional values and practices on the careers of academics, particularly the academic identities of women and their career developments.
It focuses on case studies drawn from Europe while also highlighting the rise of new forms of public management and a neoliberal framing of the value of academic work, that have a much broader global reach. Using participatory research, the book analyses contemporary forms of "gendered excellence" in an intersectional and international perspective. It will be of interest to junior/senior researchers, teachers, and scholars in sociology, education, gender studies, history, political science and science and technology studies.
Author(s): Fiona Jenkins, Barbara Hoenig, Susanne Maria Weber, Andrea Wolffram
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 273
City: London
Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Inequalities and the paradigm of excellence in academia
Part I “Inclusive excellence”: How are excellence and gender equality combined?
Chapter 1 Are equality and excellence a happy marriage of terms?: How gender figures in the business case for change
Chapter 2 Implementing gender mainstreaming in a discourse of academic excellence
Chapter 3 What are the real attitudes of professors towards gender equality?
Chapter 4 An excellent researcher?: Institutional programmatics and organisational strategies in the academic field
Part II Constructing excellence: How does gender bias affect the evaluation of excellence?
Chapter 5 Gendered representations of excellence in science and technology
Chapter 6 Gender Bias in Peer Review panels: – “The Elephant in the Room”
Chapter 7 Gendered excellence for business interests: A critical examination of the construction of centres of excellence in the Estonian research policy discourse
Chapter 8 Excellence?: Gendered micropolitics in an Irish and Spanish university context1
Part III Reproducing inequality: How does the discourse of ‘excellence’ impact women’s careers?
Chapter 9 Scientific careers and mobility patterns of top researchers of European excellence
Chapter 10 The bargaining of excellence: Who’s (not) appointed by academics?
Chapter 11 Gendered excellence in physics
Chapter 12 Excellent and care-less?: Gendered everyday practices of early career scholars in Germany and Austria
Is excellence really so excellent?: An afterword
Index
