Was This Supposed to Be on the Test? Academic Leadership, Gender and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Denmark, Hungary, Romania, and United Kingdom

Sorana-Alexandra Constantinescu and Maria-Henriete Pozsar
Additional contact information
Sorana-Alexandra Constantinescu: Political Science, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, 400409 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Maria-Henriete Pozsar: Department of Political Science, Central European University, 1100 Vienna, Austria

Publications, 2022, vol. 10, issue 2, 1-13

Abstract: Recent developments in workplace dynamics have made us even more aware of the importance of gender representation in all work-related decisions. Working from home during the pandemic, a decision that was generally the norm for European universities, forced us to rethink what are the main priorities when addressing the different needs of academic workers. The present paper tackles this overall issue from the perspective of gender representation, looking at the gender composition of the leadership structures of universities and their policy responses to employee needs. All the state-accredited universities in the following countries were included in the analysis: Romania, Denmark, Hungary and UK. These countries were chosen for the diversity in the state of their gender politics and in their overall quality of higher education. Primary results show not only that gender equality within academic leadership lags behind, but also that this lag may be associated with a poorer policy response to challenges typically faced by women during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: gender parity; COVID-19; women faculty; STEMM; humanities; care; university policy; pandemic inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 D83 L82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/10/2/16/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/10/2/16/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jpubli:v:10:y:2022:i:2:p:16-:d:785054

Access Statistics for this article

Publications is currently edited by Ms. Jennifer Zhang

More articles in Publications from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().