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Inequalities and the Paradigm of Excellence in Academia

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This volume examines the criteria of excellence producing inequalities of gender in the daily working environment and evaluation of academics.

Policymakers have increasingly placed emphasis on gender equality as part of a strategy for achieving research excellence, and efforts to reduce gender bias have become mainstream. This book suggests that this goal has remained elusive in practice due to continuing under-representation of women across many academic and scientific fields. Questioning the old structures of male dominance still prevalent in national research policy, the book explores the effects of institutional values and practices on the careers of academics, particularly the academic identities of women and their career developments.

It focuses on case studies drawn from Europe while also highlighting the rise of new forms of public management and a neoliberal framing of the value of academic work, that have a much broader global reach. Using participatory research, the book analyses contemporary forms of "gendered excellence" in an intersectional and international perspective. It will be of interest to junior/senior researchers, teachers, and scholars in sociology, education, gender studies, history, political science and science and technology studies.

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ISBN: 9781032221014
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Author: Fiona Jenkins, Barbara Hoenig, Susanne Weber, Andrea Wolffram
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 256 pages
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society
Genres: History
Feminism and feminist theory
Gender studies: women and girls
Cultural studies
Sociology: work and labour