Job crafting behavior and the success of senior academic women: An international study

Almeida, Shamika; Randle, Melanie; Norzailan, Zumalia; Cropley, Mark

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“…The literature is plentiful in unveiling the issues and challenges female academics face in different work contexts (Almeida et al ., 2022; Hooks, 1992a, b: Sang and Calvard, 2019). However, there is a shortage of research about the coping mechanisms used by marginalized academic groups to tackle the various intersectional challenges confronted in the higher education sector.…”

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Sisterhood in academia: building a flock culture to cope and thrive

Hardie,

Almeida,

Wijayawardena

et al. 2023

IJEM

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PurposeThis paper examines the experiences of a team of female academics (teaching a large cohort of undergraduate students) and the coping mechanisms used to combat the challenges they confront in the Australian higher education sector.Design/methodology/approachUsing a reflective autoethnographic method and strengths perspective, the authors share experiences as female professionals whose intersectional identities presented challenges that extend beyond those typically found in the current higher education setting.FindingsThe individualized nature of academic work exacerbates the systemic marginalization of female academics. Adopting a flock culture serves as a support network for addressing the various intersectional challenges. The authors liken the “flock cultural approach” to a “sisterhood” where individuals impacted by intersectional challenges build a strong and cohesive unit to support each other by utilizing their combined strengths to create positive synergy to cope with ongoing workplace challenges.Research limitations/implicationsThe study highlights the benefit of the strengths perspective to understand how female academics with intersectional identities can overcome the challenges of their highly individualized profession.Practical implicationsThis paper highlights the importance of building team-based work, cultivating collective achievement and high trust in a highly individualistic profession.Social implicationsUsing the strength perspective, the authors disrupt the conventional and currently narrow usage of sisterhood to help develop strong, adaptive, flexible and responsive bonds among diverse female academics. The findings point to how using a “flock culture” – a membership-based philosophy – became the key support mechanism for the marginalized groups, empowering them to confront the systemic barriers within their profession.Originality/valueFirst, the findings of this study are shaped by the intersections of factors such as ethnicity, age, race, religion and mode of employment, which all influences the participants’ lived experiences. Second, this study contributes to the transnational feminist movement by unveiling the contextualized barriers that junior academic females from various migrant backgrounds face and identify how they synergized their collective strengths to survive the challenging academic environment. Third, using the strength perspective, the authors disrupt the conventional and currently narrow usage of sisterhood to help develop strong, adaptive, flexible and responsive bonds among diverse female academics.

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Sisterhood in academia: building a flock culture to cope and thrive

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Almeida,

Wijayawardena

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A representatividade feminina nos programas brasileiros de pós-graduação em engenharia civil, ambiental e de transportes

Lopes,

Almeida,

Starlino

et al. 2024

Cad. Pedagógico

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O debate sobre a participação feminina nas carreiras acadêmicas realça as diferenças de gênero que persistem na sociedade. Atualmente, as mulheres são a maioria dos discentes de graduação e pós-graduação no Brasil. No entanto, a participação feminina nos programas de pós-graduação (PPGs) em engenharias ainda é baixa, principalmente como docentes. Diante disso, este estudo analisou a participação feminina como discentes e docentes nos PPGs em engenharia civil, ambiental e de transportes no Brasil de 2013 a 2020, bem como as relações orientador-orientando de acordo com o gênero. Para isto, nós analisamos todos os 16.131 pares de orientador-orientando de trabalhos de conclusão de mestrado e doutorado. Posteriormente, nós analisamos a produção científica de 659 pesquisadores(as) que concluíram o doutorado entre 2013 e 2016 sob uma perspectiva de gênero. Concluiu-se que, em média, as mulheres representam 47% dos concluintes de mestrado e 43% dos concluintes de doutorado entre 2013 e 2020, mas apenas 28% dos orientadores. Proporcionalmente, as orientadoras tendem a trabalhar com estudantes do gênero feminino e os orientadores tendem a trabalhar com estudantes do gênero masculino. No geral, alguns anos após a defesa do doutorado, as mulheres apresentaram métricas científicas piores do que seus pares do gênero masculino; no entanto, essas diferenças aparentam estar mais relacionadas ao gênero da pessoa do que ao gênero do seu orientador(a). Esses resultados confirmam a falta de representatividade feminina e o efeito tesoura no cenário acadêmico da engenharia brasileira e evidenciam a necessidade de implementação de políticas públicas de igualdade de gênero no cenário acadêmico brasileiro.

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Job crafting behavior and the success of senior academic women: An international study

Cited by 2 publications

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Sisterhood in academia: building a flock culture to cope and thrive

Sisterhood in academia: building a flock culture to cope and thrive

A representatividade feminina nos programas brasileiros de pós-graduação em engenharia civil, ambiental e de transportes

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