(She) Woman and (He) University. Attraction Fatale or L'amour Réciproque? The Academic Careers of Women
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Date
2015
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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(Ona) Kobieta i (On) Uniwersytet. Fatalne zauroczenie czy miłość odwzajemniona? Kariery akademickie kobiet
Abstract
The phenomenon of insufficient women representation in science and the problem of female academics
“disappearing” from careers in the humanities and social sciences is the main area of the
author’s reflection. The analysis is made within two perspectives: academic and feminist. The first
one is organizational and locates reasons for the lack of female academics and postgraduate students
in situational and personality factors in women, highlighting the problem of their individual competences
and individual choices, between career and family life. The second, feminist/organizational
orientation indicates presence of discrimination, with its manifestations in structures of higher and
primary/secondary education. They are seen in context of numerous stereotypes and gender prejudices,
generated by the essentialist perspective on gender, which influences how women’s cognitive
abilities are assessed (the case of school mathematical competencies).
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women’s academic career, underrepresentation of female academics, self-exclusion, organisational barriers
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Studia Edukacyjne, 2015, nr 37, s.275-287
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978-83-232-2967-4
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1233-6688