•Academic-managers constitute gender and racial inequality as a noncrisis.•Crisis talk only appears when the institution’s reputation is at risk.•A language of crisis is recommended to develop ...effective diversity policies.
This study investigates academic-managers’ understanding of gender and racial inequality in Belgian and Danish universities. Employing Sylvia Walby’s and Janet Roitman’s crisis concept, findings show that academic-managers use three discursive strategies of justification that are inherently tied to a noncrisis narrative. By justifying gender and racial inequality as a) ‘normal’ in academia through a meritocratic-neoliberal approach, b) considering it a matter that needs to be resolved ‘higher up’, and c) using a politics of time to relegate inequality to the past and equality to the future, they exempt themselves from dealing with gender and racial inequality. Crisis talk appears when gender inequality may harm the institution’s reputation. We conclude by advocating for a shift from a language of diversity to a language of crisis. Framing gender and racial inequality as a crisis evokes a sense of urgency to foster inclusion and diversity in research and innovation.
The difference in treatment between women and men affects the lives of women and men themselves, either directly or indirectly in society, is a source of gender problems. Discussing gender issues is ...not a problem for women facing men, but gender issues are a common community problem, which requires a process of mutual awareness in the division of roles and positions that does not ignore the rights and obligations of women and men in the family, community and other lives. This study aims to produce an analysis of gender problems in people's lives in various fields of development. The method used is to conduct a qualitative analysis of the gender profile data contained in regional apparatus organizations in Donggala Regency. The results of the study indicate that gender issues are an important issue in the implementation of development in Donggala Regency, Central Sulawesi Province, this can be seen from the gender profile data so that an analysis of this is needed. The results of this analysis are expected to be the basis for the preparation of development programs in the fields of health, economy and employment, as well as in the fields of politics and decision-making. It is concluded that the high maternal mortality rate, the large number of poor female family heads and the low political participation of women are the main problems that are difficult to resolve.
This study aims to explore gender inequality using spatial panel data models and take a step forward in adopting such a comprehensive approach to identify and estimate the factors driving gender ...inequality in European countries. The analysis utilizes panel data covers 41 European countries spanning the period from 1990 to 2020. By employing spatial panel data models, the study accounts gender inequality by mainly considering unobserved effects and various other factors, including social, economic, human rights, and environmental degradation. The findings reveal that spatial effects play a significant role in gender inequality, as evidenced by the Gender Inequality Index heatmap and the Moran's I spatial autocorrelation test. Among the panel data regression models estimate to spatial effects, the FE-SAC model is determined to be the most efficient and consistent based on various model selection criteria. The main results show that life expectancy at birth, expected years of schooling, and democracy index have decreasing effects on gender inequality, whereas CO2 emissions per capita have increasing effects. Ultimately, the study concludes that gender equality is linked to unobserved effects such as the same culture, beliefs, and values which are main reasons of spatial effects.
•Identifying observed and unobserved determinants of gender inequality.•Relationship between economic, socio-economic, human rights and environmental degradation factors and gender inequality.•Testing for spatial dependence in gender inequality.•Estimating and interpreting spatial effects in gender inequality with spatial panel data models.
This paper argues that the national populisms of Northern and Western Europe form a distinctive cluster within the wider north Atlantic and pan-European populist conjuncture. They are distinctive in ...construing the opposition between self and other not in narrowly national but in broader civilizational terms. This partial shift from nationalism to "civilizationism" has been driven by the notion of a civilizational threat from Islam. This has given rise to an identitarian "Christianism", a secularist posture, a philosemitic stance, and an ostensibly liberal defence of gender equality, gay rights, and freedom of speech. The paper highlights the distinctiveness of this configuration by briefly comparing the national populisms of Northern and Western Europe to the Trump campaign and to the national populisms of East Central Europe. It concludes by specifying two ways in which the joining of identitarian Christianism with secularist and liberal rhetoric challenges prevailing understandings of European national populism.
There is extensive, yet fragmented, evidence of gender differences in academia suggesting that women are underrepresented in most scientific disciplines and publish fewer articles throughout a ...career, and their work acquires fewer citations. Here, we offer a comprehensive picture of longitudinal gender differences in performance through a bibliometric analysis of academic publishing careers by reconstructing the complete publication history of over 1.5 million gender-identified authors whose publishing career ended between 1955 and 2010, covering 83 countries and 13 disciplines. We find that, paradoxically, the increase of participation of women in science over the past 60 years was accompanied by an increase of gender differences in both productivity and impact. Most surprisingly, though, we uncover two gender invariants, finding that men and women publish at a comparable annual rate and have equivalent career-wise impact for the same size body of work. Finally, we demonstrate that differences in publishing career lengths and dropout rates explain a large portion of the reported career-wise differences in productivity and impact, although productivity differences still remain. This comprehensive picture of gender inequality in academia can help rephrase the conversation around the sustainability of women’s careers in academia, with important consequences for institutions and policy makers.
This study discusses the gendered nature of the transformation of academic work, which has been accelerated by the COVID‐19 pandemic. We collected empirical material in spring 2020, at the peak of ...the pandemic, via 28 interviews with academics in Poland. The results illustrate the far‐reaching and lasting impacts of the pandemic on academia that reinforce existing gender inequalities and bring new ones. The study also reveals the invisible academic work, which is performed mostly by female faculty. This work, neither recognized nor rewarded in the course of women's academic careers, deepens the gendered organization of work in higher education institutions.
Gender Disparities in the Real World Geist, Claudia; Diamond, Lisa
Contexts (Berkeley, Calif.),
11/2022, Letnik:
21, Številka:
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Journal Article
Our essay addresses the real-life difficulties of discussing and describing gender inequalities. We acknowledge that, at times, falling back on binary heuristics might be necessary to communicate ...findings, but that this needs to happen in the context of a both/and approach. We argue that quantitative social science can be inclusive, even if there are limits to what data can be analyzed in depth. We conclude that a deep engagement with the complexity of sex, gender, race, nationality, sexuality, etc. remains an urgent, ongoing need across all disciplines.
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