Gender Inequalities in Academia: Multiple Approaches to Closing the Gap

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO
Author/s Emanuela Lombardo, Manuela Naldini, Barbara Poggio
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/168
Language English Pages 19 P. 9-27 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/SL2024-168001
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This special issue aims to contribute to the debate on gender inequalities in academia and the gender equality policies that address them. In this introduction we offer an overview of the debate and of the main research issues and theoretical perspectives, showing how a multiplicity of approaches are needed for both understanding and transforming higher education institutions. Macro, meso and micro level approaches illuminate the gendered individual, cultural and institutional factors that constrain and enable academic life, with special attention paid to how the neoliberal turn, and its organizational consequences, exacerbates gender inequalities. Women, gender, care, and intersectionality approaches allow scholars to focus on the different gendered or intersectional relationships within academia. Policy-oriented approaches allow us to analyse and assess progress in institutional efforts to close the gap on gender inequalities in academia. Actor-centred studies expose the power struggles between actors that oppose or promote gender equality policies in academia.

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Emanuela Lombardo, Manuela Naldini, Barbara Poggio, Gender Inequalities in Academia: Multiple Approaches to Closing the Gap in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO " 168/2024, pp 9-27, DOI: 10.3280/SL2024-168001