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Gender equality in German universities: vernacularising the battle for the best brains
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Abstract We examine how global pressures for competitiveness and gender equality have merged into a discourse of ‘inclusive excellence’ in the twenty-first century and shaped three recent German higher education programmes. After placing these programmes in the larger discourse about gender inequalities, we ... mehr
We examine how global pressures for competitiveness and gender equality have merged into a discourse of ‘inclusive excellence’ in the twenty-first century and shaped three recent German higher education programmes. After placing these programmes in the larger discourse about gender inequalities, we focus on how they adapt current global concerns about both being ‘the best’ and increasing ‘gender equality’ in locally specific ways, a process called vernacularisation. German equality advocates used ‘meeting international standards’ as leverage, drew on self-governance norms among universities, used formal gender plans as mechanisms to direct change, and set up competition to legitimate intervention. This specific incremental policy path for increasing women's status in German universities also mobilised the national funding agency and local gender equality officers as key actors, and placed particular emphasis on family friendliness as the expression of organisational commitment to gender equality.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Gender Mainstreaming; Wissenschaft; Hochschule; Universität; Globalisierung; Frauenförderung; Wettbewerbsfähigkeit; Hochschulpolitik; Gleichstellungspolitik
Klassifikation
Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Bildungswesen tertiärer Bereich
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2016
Seitenangabe
S. 867-885
Zeitschriftentitel
Gender and Education, 28 (2016) 7
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/179512
ISSN
1360-0516
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung