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| Tekijä: | Krefting, L.A. |
| Otsikko: | Intertwined discourses of merit and gender: Evidence from academic employment in the USA |
| Lehti: | Gender, Work and Organization
2003 : MAR, VOL. 10:2, p. 260-278 |
| Asiasana: | Academic staff Employment Gender USA |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | In the USA women currently gain about 44% of doctoral degrees and a similar share of initial academic appointments. Overall women hold about 33% of faculty positions. Women also earn less than men with comparable qualifications and accomplishments. The gendered nature of academic life in the USA is interpreted in terms of “ambivalent sexism”. In this view, gender stereotypes are ideological and prescriptive rather than simply descriptive; their influence on academic employment processes is unlikely to diminish simply with the passage of time. Adding a feminist perspective on discourse allows a more optimistic view: intertwined discourses of gender and merit are sufficiently complex and heterogeneous to provide openings for resistance, renegotiation, and rewriting. |
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