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Academic Careers and the Gender Gap

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Description for Academic Careers and the Gender Gap Paperback. An analysis of the institutional, academic, family, and personal contributors to the academic gender gap in liberal-state universities. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.

Women earn nearly half of all new PhDs in Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Why, then, do they occupy a disproportionate number of the junior-level positions at universities while their male counterparts continue to snap up 80 percent of the more prestigious jobs? In Academic Careers and the Gender Gap, Maureen Baker explains the reasons behind this inequality, drawing on interviews with male and female scholars, previous research, and her own thirty-eight-year academic career. Using a feminist political economy and interpretive theoretical framework, she argues that current university priorities and collegial relations often magnify ... Read more

Baker sets academia in the wider context of restructuring labour markets and gendered earning patterns within families. The result is a revealing portrait of significant and persistent differences in job security, institutional affiliation, working hours, rank, salary, job satisfaction, collegial networks, and career length between male and female scholars.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774823975
SKU
V9780774823975
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Ref
99-1

About Keith M. Baker
Maureen Baker is a professor of sociology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

Reviews for Academic Careers and the Gender Gap
Academic Careers and the Gender Gap is an original study that offers valuable new insights on the gendering of academic work, especially with respect to the changing nature of the university context and the academic profession. A particular strength lies in the rich qualitative data that sheds valuable light on ongoing debates in the sociology of gender, work, and family. ... Read more

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