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| Author: | Czarniawska, B. Sevon, G. |
| Title: | The thin end of the wedge: Foreign women professors as double strangers in academia |
| Journal: | Gender, Work and Organization
2008 : MAY, VOL. 15:3, p. 235-287 |
| Index terms: | gender universities Europe |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | According to an observation many of the first women to obtain chairs at European universities have been foreigners. This study focuses on 4 life stories. It turned out that being a 'double stranger', that is, a woman in a masculine profession and a foreigner, is not a cumulative disadvantage. Rather, it seems that these two types of strangeness might cancel out one another, permitting these women a greater degree of success than was allowed their native sisters. However, this situation provides little psychological comfort, hence the metaphor of the wedge: opening the doors but suffering from double pressure. |
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