Gender budgeting to expose inequalities in a precarious academia – and redistribute resources to effect change

Steinþórsdóttir, Finnborg Salome; Einarsdóttir, Þorgerður; Heijstra, Thamar Melanie; Pétursdóttir, Gyða Margrét; Smidt, Thomas Brorsen

doi:10.4324/9781315201245-4

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“…Research shows women generally have academic positions with higher teaching commitments (AAUP 2001; Misra et al 2011). Women are less likely to hold positions at research universities and more likely to work in adjunct or other temporary teaching roles (Finkelstein, Conley, and Schuster 2016; Monks 2009; Steinþórsdóttir et al 2018). Research suggests that online teaching takes more time, especially when initially creating a class, than in-person teaching (Kenny and Fluck 2017; Myers et al 2020; Tomei 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Pandemic Penalty: The Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Scientific Productivity

King

Frederickson

2021

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Academia serves as a valuable case for studying the effects of social forces on workplace productivity, using a concrete measure of output: scholarly papers. Many academics, especially women, have experienced unprecedented challenges to scholarly productivity during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The authors analyze the gender composition of more than 450,000 authorships in the arXiv and bioRxiv scholarly preprint repositories from before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This analysis reveals that the underrepresentation of women scientists in the last authorship position necessary for retention and promotion in the sciences is growing more inequitable. The authors find differences between the arXiv and bioRxiv repositories in how gender affects first, middle, and sole authorship submission rates before and during the pandemic. A review of existing research and theory outlines potential mechanisms underlying this widening gender gap in productivity during COVID-19. The authors aggregate recommendations for institutional change that could ameliorate challenges to women’s productivity during the pandemic and beyond.

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confidence: 99%

The Pandemic Penalty: The Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Scientific Productivity

King

Frederickson

2021

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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104

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“…Research shows women generally have academic positions with higher teaching commitments (AAUP, 2001;Misra, Lundquist, Holmes, & Agiomavritis, 2011). Women are less likely to hold positions at research universities, and more likely to be in adjunct or other temporary teaching roles (Finkelstein, Conley, & Schuster, 2016;Monks, 2009;Steinþórsdóttir, Einarsdóttir, Heijstra, Pétursdóttir, & Smidt, 2018). Research suggests that online teaching takes more time, especially when initially creating a class, than in-person teaching (Kenny & Fluck, 2017;Myers et al, 2020;Tomei, 2006).…”

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The Pandemic Penalty: The gendered effects of COVID-19 on scientific productivity

King¹,

Frederickson²

2020

Preprint

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Academia provides a valuable case study for evaluating the effects of social forces on workplace productivity, using a concrete measure of output: the scholarly paper. Many academics -- especially women -- have experienced unprecedented challenges to scholarly productivity with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we analyze the gender composition of over 450,000 authorships of scholarly preprints in the preprint repositories arXiv and bioRxiv from before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This analysis reveals that the underrepresentation of women scientists in the prestige last authorship position necessary for retention and promotion is only getting more inequitable. We find differences between the arXiv and bioRxiv repositories in how gender affects first, middle, and sole authorship submission rates before and during the pandemic. In a second contribution, we review existing research and theory that could explain the mechanisms behind this widening gender gap in productivity during COVID-19. Finally, we aggregate recommendations for institutional change that could help ameliorate challenges to women's productivity during the pandemic and beyond.

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“…The Irish case demonstrates that change is produced by a continuous dispute within and beyond institutions. Instead of an agenda that proposes change is 'led from the top', many projects value collective work done 'against the top' to disrupt the status quo (3LWW, 2014;Cotera, 2018;Hanson and Noterman, 2017;Ivancheva and Keating, 2020;Lajoie, 2020;Steinþórsdóttir et al, 2019). As a concluding discussion, we will present a brief assessment of our analysis.…”

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Shattered glass piling at the bottom: The ‘problem’ with gender equality policy for higher education

Ruggi

Duvvury

2022

Critical Social Policy

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Since 2014, gender equality has gained momentum in Irish higher education. Feminist organising and media attention resulted in an ‘almost-perfect storm of pressure’ to which the state responded by developing an ‘ambitious and radical’ policy. Employing Bacchi's methodology (WPR), this article demonstrates the problem of gender inequality has been gradually narrowed to address the lack of ‘women’ in senior positions. Competing problematisations were marginalised. The unequal distribution of care work in and out of higher education was ignored, silencing the gendered experiences of academics and non-academics, particularly precarious and outsourced staff. The policy machinery is found to reduce gender transformation to state-led stages and sideline feminist demands, highlighting the need to investigate the role of gender expertise and national statistics. The focus on the glass ceiling (a trend across Europe) is a form of ‘gender branding’ drawing on and reproducing neo-colonial progress-scales while stalling intersectional agendas.

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Gender budgeting to expose inequalities in a precarious academia – and redistribute resources to effect change

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The Pandemic Penalty: The Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Scientific Productivity

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The Pandemic Penalty: The gendered effects of COVID-19 on scientific productivity

Shattered glass piling at the bottom: The ‘problem’ with gender equality policy for higher education

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