Gender Bias: What Has Changed for Female Academics?

Kimoto, Naomi

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09468-7_6

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“…While in the 1992 Carnegie survey 51.3% of men and 51.4% of women were satisfied with the collegial relationships at their workplace, in the 2007 AP survey those percentages were 57.1% and 61.0%, respectively. The percentage of those dissatisfied, however, remained rather constant between 10.2% and 13.4% (Kimoto, 2015: 99), suggesting that, overall, collegial relationships had improved in the years during that period. This would seem to correspond better with the increase in job satisfaction discussed above.…”

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“…The AP sample shows a very similar age distribution, with only 0.5% being under 30 and 9.7% being in the 30–39 age group. Those respondents over 50 account for more than half of the sample here as well (Kimoto 2015: 92). As older academics express greater job satisfaction than their younger colleagues – which is not hard to believe if the working conditions described in the first part of the article are borne in mind – this skewing in the sample might mean that the overall level of job satisfaction among academics in Japan did not increase in the way that has been suggested.…”

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Worsening work conditions and rising levels of job satisfaction? Measuring the happiness of academics in Japan

Aichinger

Fankhauser

Goodman

2017

Research in Comparative and International Education

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Working conditions in academia are generally considered to be deteriorating. Data from surveys which look at the job satisfaction of academics, however, do not clearly support this notion. This appears to be especially true for the case of Japan. Much of the recent literature on academics’ job satisfaction globally relies on the comparison of two large-scale international surveys from 1992 and 2007, despite significant shortcomings of such an approach. In the case of Japan, where a third survey - also from 2007 - is available, these shortcomings become particularly apparent. After presenting an overview of how the working conditions of Japanese academics have changed in the twenty-five years between these surveys, the present paper identifies some of the inconsistencies and problems involved in such surveys and then explores the ‘paradox’ of rising levels of job satisfaction in Japan despite the objective worsening work conditions over the same period.

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