Concepts and Perceptions of Gendered Women’s Experiences in Academia

Ronksley-Pavia, Michelle; Neumann, Michelle M.; Manakil, Jane F.; Pickard-Smith, Kelly

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“…This position does not fit the pre-established subordinate position that women would be expected to occupy in higher education and is frequently viewed as subversive, controversial, and surprising in our society. By identifying our voices, making them appear in academic work, and honoring our thought processes, collaborative interpretive autoethnography created a procedure that allowed scholarly women to articulate our voices in academia as legitimate speech and to reflect on our experiences in a context as challenging for women as the Covid-19 pandemic, which intensified our workloads disproportionately to our male peers, leaving us in a state of complete exhaustion (Ronksley-Pavia et al 2023).…”

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Female Academics in Higher Education: Conducting Qualitative Research against All Odds

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This piece brings together the experiences of four Chilean researchers and one Spanish researcher with different professional backgrounds (psychology, sociology, nursing, and education), who conduct qualitative inquiry from other approaches, moments, and gender-sensitive topics of interest in the border regions of Arica and Parinacota, and Tarapacá, both in northern Chile; the capital Santiago; and in Andalucía, southern Spain. In this paper, the authors problematize their research experiences by focusing on their condition as academics conducting qualitative research in the context of neoliberal higher education and with a pandemic affecting all spheres of life. Finally, they explore what their experiences have been like in leading government-funded research projects and representing the voices of underrepresented people in different spheres of life in the field of education and health. Voices are shared to identify challenges and assess implications for qualitative research in these difficult times in the academy.

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“…There is slow progress in the gap between men and women, especially in Education and Health (Ministerio CTCI de Chile, 2022). Higher education institutions have differences in the gender composition of their academic hierarchies, with women under-represented in top positions (Ronksley-Pavia et al, 2023). Indeed, the percentage of women academics in senior university positions reaches only 36%, including full professors, deans, and university leaders (Bothwell et al, 2022).…”

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Women in academia: an analysis through a scoping review

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Sepúlveda-Páez,

Pedraja-Rejas

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Changes in higher education, such as the performance measures in research, neoliberalism, the feminist movement, and the COVID-19 pandemic, have challenged women in academia. The incorporation of women in academia is a relatively recent phenomenon. It was only in the middle of the last century that the presence of women in higher education was systematically increasing; however, this increase in women’s participation in Education has not eliminated gender gaps and inequalities. This article shows the results of a scoping review of the scientific literature, which aimed to identify what has been written about women’s experiences in academia during the last decade and determine the knowledge gaps. To this end, three databases, Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar, were reviewed for the literature search. As a result, 533 articles were obtained; however, after applying the exclusion criteria, 129 scientific papers were analyzed. The thematic analysis identified five central themes in the last 10 years (difficulties experienced by women academics in their careers; the underrepresentation of women academics; the impact of neoliberalism on the careers of women academics; the facilitating factors in the careers of women academics; and the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on the careers of women academics). Finally, these categories and subcategories shape the challenges women academics face in higher Education and are analyzed and discussed. In conclusion, more than a third of the articles reviewed reflect on the difficulties experienced by female academics in their careers for the decade; however, during the last few years, it is possible to identify articles that address the challenges intensified in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. As of 2018, articles addressing neoliberalism’s effects on female academics’ careers have increased. To a lesser extent, articles addressing aspects that facilitate the development of women’s academic careers are also found. Thus, there is an essential reflection on the challenges and difficulties faced by women academics during their careers.

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Concepts and Perceptions of Gendered Women’s Experiences in Academia

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Female Academics in Higher Education: Conducting Qualitative Research against All Odds

Female Academics in Higher Education: Conducting Qualitative Research against All Odds

Women in academia: an analysis through a scoping review

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