Women in / and Academia

Ph.D. PostDoc Scholar Cristina-Emanuela Dascalu ()
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Ph.D. PostDoc Scholar Cristina-Emanuela Dascalu: PhD, PostDoc Scholar/ Postdoctoral Grant Recipient, ROMANIAN ACADEMY, IASI BRANCH, The Knowledge Based Society-Researches, Debates, Perspectives Postdoctoral Program supported by the Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development (SOP HRD), financed from the European Social Fund and by the Romanian Government under the contract number POSDRU ID 56815/ E 1859, Romania

Conferinta Stiintifica Internationala Logos Universalitate Mentalitate Educatie Noutate - Lumen International Scientific Conference Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty, 2011, vol. 1, 63

Abstract: This research paper, both quantitative (drawing on statistical data and analyses, employing coding practices and making use of diverse questionnaires) and qualitative (using in-depth interviews, observations and case studies) addresses how and why institutionalized practices and structures contribute to gender inequity in universities-with a focus mainly on American and Romanian universities. The paper also deals with gendered definitions of faculty jobs (and top rank positions in any fields, not just in academia) and gendered limitations to knowledge in the field of organizational studies. Regarding knowledge, it seems that--based on coding articles in a few main journals--knowledge is connected to men, very rarely to women. The harsh conclusion of the large scale analysis shows why changing the numbers of women in academia (the "add women and stir" solution) is not likely to alter sex inequality in the organizational studies field unless major changes are made to the ways faculty jobs are structured and unless the assumption that the content of knowledge in our field is challenged. In the given situation, a change of mentality does not seem possible and thus, irrespective of the fact that more women graduate from university with all types of degrees including doctorates, there will be, for a long time at least, inequity and inequality in the academic world when it comes to women.

Keywords: Women; academia; inequity; inequality; mentality; knowledge; men (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A23 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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