Gender Change in Academia

1. Front Matter

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2. “Gender Change in Academia“: Gender in Universities in Lower Saxony

   • Lutz Stratmann

   Pages 13-14

3. Engendering the University through Policy and Practice: Barriers to Promotion to Full Professor for Women in the Science, Engineering, and Math Disciplines

   • Dana M. Britton

   Pages 15-26

4. Hyper-Modernisation and Archaism: Women in Higher Education Internationally

   • Louise Morley

   Pages 27-42

5. Gender and gatekeeping of excellence in research funding: European perspectives

   • Liisa Husu, Suzanne de Cheveigné

   Pages 43-59

6. The new entrepreneurship in science and changing gender arrangements – Approaches and perspectives

   • Brigitte Aulenbacher, Birgit Riegraf

   Pages 61-73

7. Gender, Managerialism and Academe: Challenges and Prospects

   • Jim Barry

   Pages 75-86

8. Science Between Organization and Profession: Opportunities for Neutralizing Gender? – Reflections on Research Assessment

   • Hildegard Matthies, Sandra Matthäus

   Pages 87-100

9. Careers and the Reorganisation of University and Research Systems in France and Germany

   • Ilse Costas

   Pages 101-122

10. Reforming university, re-gendering careers. Informal barriers to women academics in Austria

    • Eva Flicker, Johanna Hofbauer, Birgit Sauer

    Pages 123-136

11. Grasping the poisoned chalice: Higher education and managerial identities in Sweden

    • Elisabeth Berg

    Pages 137-147

12. Is Science as way of life in transition? Some notes about the every day style of life of academics in Germany

    • Kristina Binner

    Pages 149-159

13. Academic Life and Gender Relations. The Case of Fathers in Professorship

    • Brigitte Liebig

    Pages 161-171

14. Gender Knowledge under Construction. The Case of the European Union’s Science and Research Policy

    • Karin Zimmermann

    Pages 173-187

15. Women in cutting-edge research – gender equality and the German Excellence Initiative

    • Stephanie Zuber

    Pages 189-201

16. Contemporary Challenges for gender research in the context of globalisation

    • Ilse Lenz

    Pages 203-216

17. ‘Security’ Architectures, New Ontologies and the Category of Gender. Contemporary Challenges in Feminist Technoscience Studies

    • Jutta Weber

    Pages 217-230

18. Innovative changes in biomedicine: integration of sex and gender aspects in research and clinical practice

    • Ineke Klinge

    Pages 231-242

19. Gender Studies as a Profession

    • Gabriele Griffin

    Pages 243-251

20. Promoting Women in Post-Graduate Studies: Chances and Challenges of PhD Reforms in Germany

    • Karin Gottschall

    Pages 253-268

Editors’ Foreword The fundamental changes currently taking place in the national and international science landscapes can no longer be overlooked. Within those changes, reforms do not go ‘as planned’ but, as is always the case with processes of rationali- tion, have a series of unintended effects. At the same time it becomes incre- ingly clear who in this process are the winners and who are the losers, although this is still subject to fluctuation and change. This can be illustrated by two - amples from current events: Where the range of taught courses is concerned, as part of the Bologna Process the new structuring of student study paths and their organisation is aimed at unifying the European area of science to ensure a study that is equally permissive and efficient. However, it is to be deplored that the mobility of s- dents has become more restricted because of an increasing specialisation in the available study paths. Also, bachelor degrees do not meet with the anticipated high response from the labour market in all countries, so that the master’s degree is becoming more or less a ‘must’, while at the same time the number of study places on master’s courses is limited. Instead of the intended reduction in the duration of study time in comparison to the previous German ‘Magister’ and ‘Diplom’, rather a prolongation in the duration of studies has been recorded.

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• Bologna-Prozess
• Gender
• Gender Research
• Geschlechterpolitik
• Geschlechterverhältnisse
• Organisationswandel
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• organizations

Prof. Dr. Birgit Riegraf teaches and is doing research in sociology at the Department of Cultural Sciences at the University of Paderborn .
Prof. Dr. Brigitte Aulenbacher is Head of the Department of Theoretical Sociology and Social Analysis at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Linz.
Dr. Edit Kirsch-Auwärter is Equal Opportunity Commissioner at the University of Göttingen and Head of the Equal Opportunities Office there.
Prof. Dr. Ursula Müller represents the Gender Studies at the Faculty of Sociology of the Bielefeld University and she is Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Women's and Gender Studies (Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, IFF).

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