Political Science Careers at Comprehensive Universities: Building Balanced Careers at “Greedy” Institutions

Hendrickson, Ryan C.; Mueller, Melinda; Strand, Jonathan R.

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“…Academia has been considered a 'greedy institution' (Currie et al, 2000;Hendrickson et al, 2011) that perpetuates inequalities between women and men, theorised in concepts such as the 'academic mortality' of women (Krais, 2002), a 'leak in the pipeline' (Alper, 1993;Leeman et al, 2010;Van Anders, 2004) and a 'glass ceiling' or 'iron ceiling ' (Fassa and Kradolfer, 2010). The decrease in the percentage of women from one academic position to a higher one is due, among other things, to a modus operandi similar to an 'old boys' club' (Bain & Cummings, 2000), a Matilda effect that underestimates women's contribution to science, while men benefit from a cumulative process of recognition (Rossiter, 1993).…”

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Family configurations and arrangements in the transnational mobility of early-career academics: Does gender make twice the difference?

Toader

Dahinden

2018

Migrat. Lett.

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Previous studies have pointed out the highly gendered character of academia in general and international mobility in particular: women academics are confronted with a ‘glass ceiling’, and they are less geographically mobile than men, mainly as a result of family obligations. This paper examines whether gender plays twice a role in how women and men consider family arrangements in regard to a long-term post-PhD period of transnational mobility. Using data from an online survey and face-to-face interviews at the Universities of Cambridge and Zurich, we focus first on family configurations when academics decide to become mobile, then on how the family arrangements evolve while abroad. We show that the transnational mobility of academics has become more complex and varied than the ‘classical model’ of mobile academic men and non-mobile or ‘tied mover’ women. While having a child continues to impact gender roles, institutional characteristics in the context of mobility also play a role that needs to be further analysed.

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Family configurations and arrangements in the transnational mobility of early-career academics: Does gender make twice the difference?

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Dahinden

2018

Migrat. Lett.

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“…This notably is connected to the old structure of the university built around a masculine figure: the ‘professor of the university’ or ‘man of science’ who is entirely engaged in his work, freed from domestic necessities by the presence of an invisible carer (the person taking care), in order to devote himself entirely and unrestrainedly to his work. The university has thus constructed itself upon a model of a ‘greedy institution’ (Coser, 1974; del Rio Carral and Fusulier, 2013; Grant et al, 2000; Hendrickson et al, 2011) expecting a total engagement in work, which is voluntary and passionate in nature; and furthermore upon a model of dissociation of work/family (Kanter, 1977), which by the way is characteristic of a labour society (Fusulier and Nicole-Drancourt, 2015). In this sense, it espouses a gender regime that distributes socially useful activities unequally between men and women.…”

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Understanding gender inequality and the role of the work/family interface in contemporary academia: An introduction

Dubois-Shaik

Fusulier

2017

European Educational Research Journal

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This double special issue gathers a series of nuanced critically conceptual and case-study research showing that in the contemporary European context, despite regional differences in gender regimes, political and economic demands and organizational cultures, work/life balance policies and their translation into practice remains a highly ambiguous issue. Although work/life balance policies have undoubtedly entered the university institutional spaces, they are deterred by opposing institutional policy logics and particularly ‘greedy’ logics of the organizing of work that still aligns to outdated work-exclusive masculine organizational culture (outdated because men too are suffering the effects, and because the academic environment is feminized). Moreover, there are lingering gender stereotypes around the value and attribution of home and work duties, which are having a significant impact upon women’s professional and private spheres and experiences in academic work. The gathered research shows how university institutions are still quite far from having addressed the core issues that undermine women’s career advancement and their possibilities to access to academic membership and leadership, still obliging them (and their male counterparts) to align with a work and membership (selection and progression) logic and organization that does not take into consideration parenthood, family and personal spheres of life.

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“… 4. This is the description in several research works (e.g. Currie et al, 2000; Hendrickson et al, 2011). …”

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“Navigating” through a scientific career: A question of private and professional configurational supports

Fusulier

Barbier

Dubois-Shaik

2017

European Educational Research Journal

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Men and women remain in unequal positions in coping with their scientific and academic careers. Several of the mechanisms dissuading or preventing women from pursuing scientific careers have already been described in the literature: women getting stuck with paltry, undervalued tasks, thus manufacturing a “sticky floor”; structuring the scientific field around a masculine habitus; and the “Matilda” effect for women. An additional cause of these inequalities is observed in the relationship between the private and professional aspects of the individuals’ lives. The university transmits a “gendered order” in its organizational structures, principles, customs and habits, in short in the practice of scientific work. That is due in particular to the ancient structuring of the university around a male figure: the “university professor” or “scientist” entirely invested in his work, freed from domestic necessities by an invisible carer (he or she who ‘cares’ for him), so he can devote himself to science. Hence the university was constructed on a “greedy” model expecting a total, voluntary and impassioned engagement in work, coupled with a model of work/family dissociation. Based on a research programme dealing with post-doctoral researchers and recently tenured researchers*, this article analyses the role of their private life and how it relates to the professional sphere in their experience of scientific work. In this respect, it provides some explanatory elements on both the greater vulnerability of women-mothers in the university game and on the configurational supports (configurations of professional life and private life) needed to offset that vulnerability.

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Political Science Careers at Comprehensive Universities: Building Balanced Careers at “Greedy” Institutions

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Family configurations and arrangements in the transnational mobility of early-career academics: Does gender make twice the difference?

Family configurations and arrangements in the transnational mobility of early-career academics: Does gender make twice the difference?

Understanding gender inequality and the role of the work/family interface in contemporary academia: An introduction

“Navigating” through a scientific career: A question of private and professional configurational supports

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