Gender and Precarious Research Careers

Annalisa Murgia has coordinated the European FP7 project GARCIA – Gendering the Academy and Research: Combating Career Instability and Asymmetries. She is Associate Professor at the Leeds University Business School, UK. Barbara Poggio is Co-ordinator of the Centre of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies and Vice Rector for Equality and Diversity at the University of Trento, Italy.

Introduction

Annalisa Murgia and Barbara Poggio

PART I The State of the Art

1. Gender and Precarious Careers in Academia and Research: : Macro, Meso and Micro Perspectives

Rossella Bozzon, Annalisa Murgia, Barbara Poggio

2. The Gendered Diversification of Academic Career Paths in Comparative Perspective

Nicky Le Feuvre, Pierre Bataille, Sabine Kradolfer, Maria del Rio Carral, Marie Sautier

PART II Academic and Research Organisations

3: Gender Budgeting to Expose Inequalities in a Precarious Academia – and Redistribute Resources to Effect Change

Finnborg S. Steinþórsdóttir, Þorgerður Einarsdóttir, Thamar M. Heijstra, Gyða M. Pétursdóttir, Thomas Brorsen Smidt

4. The Peril of Potential: Gender Practices in the Recruitment and Selection of Early-Career Researchers

Channah Herschberg, Yvonne Benschop, Marieke van den Brink

PART III Early-Career Researchers

5. Work-Life Balance Among Early-Career Researchers in Six European Countries

Sanja Cukut Krilić, Majda Černič Istenič, Duška Knežević Hočevar

6. A Gendered Pipeline Typology in Academia

Farah Dubois-Shaik, Bernard Fusulier, Caroline Vincke

Conclusions

7. Implementing Measures to Promote Gender Equality and Career Opportunities of Early-career Researchers

Florian Holzinger, Helene Schiffbänker, Sybille Reidl, Silvia Hafellner, Jürgen Streicher