Metaphors on Women in Academia: A Review of the Literature, 2004–2013

Amery, Fran; Bates, Stephen; Jenkins, Laura; Savigny, Heather

doi:10.1108/s1529-212620150000020022

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“…I browsed the first twenty pages, comprising about 200 entries. Among my results, I retained and read comprehensive reviews of metaphors on women academics (such as Amery et al, 2015) as well as anthologies discussing the topic (such as Black and Garvis, 2018). In addition, I retained and read the papers that displayed striking, powerful metaphors already in their titles or abstracts (including Gallant and Cross, 1993;Harris et al, 2013).…”

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“…Occasionally, Cinderella is fortunate enough to encounter her 'fairy godmother', an experienced female 4 / 13 © 2021 by Author/s mentor who helps her to navigate 'the kingdom' of academia (Harris et al, 2013). Cinderella echoes other popular metaphors on female academics, such as 'housekeeper' and 'housewife' (Delamont, 1989;Suspitsina, 2000;Bagilhole, 2002;Fitzgerald, 2014;Amery et al, 2015). Interestingly, I found that the Cinderella metaphor is used also in academic medicine for under-researched, under-diagnosed and under-treated diseases and low-status branches of medical science: unsurprising, these encompass female sexual dysfunctions, and family and community medicine where women are well-represented.…”

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Contemporary Fairy Tales: Narrating Women Academics Through Metaphors

Moratti

2021

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The language we use reveals that. This paper is a meta-reflection problematising the literary and symbolic images, or metaphors, used in white papers, in the scholarly literature and the media to refer to the professional lives and experiences of women academics (Amery et al., 2015;Moratti, 2018). I situate my investigation within the gender, work and organisations scholarship discussing metaphors on women in organisations (Bendl and Schmidt, 2010;Smith et al., 2012;Kemp, 2016). The imagery we invoke brings in implicit meaning (Goatly, 2007; Zinken and Mulsolff, 2009) and conveys a particular interpretation of the nature of the professional hindrances that women encounter. The question has been discussed in the feminist literature with highly interdisciplinary and original approaches, following the 'linguistic turn' in feminist studies (Tolmach-Lakoff, 1973;Spender, 1980) and drawing on the seminal works by linguist George Lakoff (Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things, 1987) and business theorist Gareth Morgan (Images of Organizations, 1986). Feminist scholars have produced an impressive body of knowledge and the use of metaphors on women in work organisations is now an important topic in feminism, but surprisingly not (yet) a core one. Key texts such as the Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory (2016) and the Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organizations (2014) do not include a dedicated chapter on metaphor use. Even more remarkably, the word 'metaphor' is not listed in the index of either handbook. The indexes go into a considerable level of detail and respectively include 'men's rights movement' and 'merit', the latter encompassing as many as nine sub-entries (Kumra et al., 2014; Disch and Hawkesworth, 2018). However, the investigation of metaphor use is fertile intellectual terrain affording exceptional opportunities for creative and methodologically original inquiry leading to theoretical insights.

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Contemporary Fairy Tales: Narrating Women Academics Through Metaphors

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“…Otro concepto es leaky pipeline, como Fran Amery et al (2015) plantean: a medida que avanza la carrera académica el número de mujeres disminuye. Durante el 2016, a nivel mundial un 53 % de las mujeres se graduó de la universidad, 53 % de magíster, 43 % de doctorado, pero sólo 28 % se dedica a la investigación (UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2016, en UNESCO, 2017.…”

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Resistencias y reproducciones de mujeres académicas: Estrategias de supervivencia en la academia patriarcal/neoliberal

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En el marco de un estudio más amplio sobre transformación de la ciencia en Chile realizamos un estudio cualitativo a través de entrevistas activas a 20 mujeres científicas que habitan la academia. En primer lugar, reconocemos que la academia se está transformando en un espacio donde la hiperproductividad, individualismo y evaluación constante, entre otros indicadores, han tomado las riendas hacia una academia neoliberal. En segundo lugar, reconocemos la academia como espacio de trabajo creado por/para hombres y, por ende, patriarcal. Nuestro objetivo es visibilizar y describir críticamente las estrategias que usan las mujeres académicas. Analizamos cuáles son sus puntos de resistencia a los sistemas neoliberal y patriarcal, pero también cómo estas estrategias pueden reproducir los mismos sistemas de los que se desean rebelar. Creamos cinco códigos que describen y analizan cada estrategia, a saber: masculinización, perfeccionismo, malabarismo, limitación y sororidad.

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“…Por tudo isso, a literatura concorda em assinalar que a Ciência Política apresenta obstáculos relativamente maiores para a inclusão das mulheres e os temas de gênero em comparação com outras disciplinas da área social (Tolleson-Rinehart e Carroll, 2006;Freidenberg, 2018;Hero, 2015;Amery et al, 2015).…”

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