Tag: article review
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Gender Patterns in Academic External Engagement: Reflections on a Baltic Sea Region Study
Female academics in the soft sciences appear to participate more in external activities, but does this lead to real career advantages? A new study from the Baltic Sea region reopens the crucial debate on gender, invisible labour, and the true costs of academic engagement.
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When gender equality depends on who cares: lessons from a technical university
Are we still treating structural work as if it can rely indefinitely on individual passion? It cannot.
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Happy talk and diversity work: when institutions only tell the story they want to hear
A new study on Athena SWAN in Irish higher education uses visual mapping to expose the gap between institutional diversity rhetoric and actual practice.
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Gender Equality Plans will not fix what they cannot see
Equality is not only about rules. It is about relationships. Until we take the informal seriously the gap between our equality commitments and our equality outcomes will persist.
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Research impact outside of academia
Is being interviewed by a local (even national) newspaper (or invited from a prestigious university to do a seminar) good for impact? No, at least not unless it leads to something else, as Prof. Gauntlett clearly explained in an article published in 2014 but still useful for those involved in projects where demonstrating the impact…
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Genere e tecnologia: rinnovate alleanze
Il campo di studi interdisciplinare che analizza i rapporti fra donne, uomini, genere e tecnologia, denominato Gender and Technology studies, dagli anni Settanta del secolo scorso ha analizzato e discusso in maniera critica numerose tecnologie: riproduttive, ambientali, informatiche, di uso domestico o lavorativo.
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Glass ceiling or sinking floor?
The most urgent issue facing working Americans today is not the glass ceiling. It is the sinking floor. So wouldn’t it make more sense to focus on gender-neutral economic policies? STEPHANIE COONTZ How Can We Help Men? By Helping Women