Women's Work-Related and Family-Related Discrimination and Support in Academia
Gender Realities: Local and Global
ISBN: 978-0-76231-214-6, eISBN: 978-1-84950-345-7
Publication date: 4 June 2005
Abstract
Academia remains a male-dominated occupational realm, even though women have made great gains as actors in higher education. The interconnections of work-related and family-related discrimination experiences and work-related and family-related support are analyzed, drawing on over 100 semi-structured interviews with and written accounts of academic women in 11 Finnish universities from all major disciplinary fields. Finland provides an interesting research context, characterized by relatively high gender equality in both academia and society more generally. Exploring academic women in this setting reveals several paradoxes, namely those of: feminization of academia; family-friendly policies; academic motherhood; and academic endogamy.
Citation
Husu, L. (2005), "Women's Work-Related and Family-Related Discrimination and Support in Academia", Texler Segal, M. and Demos, V. (Ed.) Gender Realities: Local and Global (Advances in Gender Research, Vol. 9), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 161-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1529-2126(05)09007-7
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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