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Academic Careers and the Gender Gap
Maureen Baker (Author)
9780774823975
Paperback / softback, published 1 January 2013
220 pages, 8 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.34 kg
Academic Careers and the Gender Gap is an original study that offers valuable new insights on the gendering of academic work, especially with respect to the changing nature of the university context and the academic profession. A particular strength lies in the rich qualitative data that sheds valuable light on ongoing debates in the sociology of gender, work, and family. - Karen D. Hughes, Professor of Sociology and Business (Strategic Management and Organization), University of Alberta
Women earn nearly half of all new PhDs in Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Why, then, do they occupy a disproportionate number of the junior-level positions at universities while their male counterparts continue to snap up 80 percent of the more prestigious jobs? In Academic Careers and the Gender Gap, Maureen Baker explains the reasons behind this inequality, drawing on interviews with male and female scholars, previous research, and her own thirty-eight-year academic career. Using a feminist political economy and interpretive theoretical framework, she argues that current university priorities and collegial relations often magnify the impact of gendered families and identities and perpetuate the academic gender gap. Baker sets academia in the wider context of restructuring labour markets and gendered earning patterns within families. The result is a revealing portrait of significant and persistent differences in job security, institutional affiliation, working hours, rank, salary, job satisfaction, collegial networks, and career length between male and female scholars.
Preface and Acknowledgments 1 Setting the Scene 2 Gendered Patterns of Education, Work, and Family Life 3 University Restructuring and Global Markets 4 Social Capital and Gendered Responses to University Practices 5 Gendered Families and the Motherhood Penalty 6 Subjectivities and the Gender Gap 7 Explaining the Academic Gender Gap Methodological Appendix Notes References Index