Dear nasties, this week, joined by Elizabeth, the four women of She Who Persisted tackle sexism and struggles in academia. So get your chocolate ready, get pizza, and a therapist and listen to this episode. Being a woman in academia sucks but at least you’re not alone. Let’s commiserate.
SOURCES
overview:
austria specific:
- http://geschichte.univie.ac.at/de/artikel/frauenstudium (german)
- https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/uniview/uniblicke/detailansicht/artikel/sieben-frauen-erobern-den-arkadenhof/ (german)
- https://monuments.univie.ac.at/index.php?title=Denkmal_anonymisierte_Wissenschaftlerinnen_1700%E2%80%932005_(Elise_Richter) (german)
- https://wissenschaft.bmwfw.gv.at/fileadmin/user_upload/wissenschaft/publikationen/BM_WFW_Wissenschaft_2016_WEB.pdf (english and german)
- https://www.bmb.gv.at/frauen/gender/gender_index_2015.pdf?5oc6ap (german)
- http://www.univie.ac.at/unique/uniquecms/?p=4918 (german)
- Erler, Ingolf (ed). “Keine Chance für Lisa Simpson? Soziale Ungleichheit im Bildungssystem”. Mandelbaum Verlag: 2007.
leaky pipeline:
impostor syndrome:
nepotism and sexism in peer-review:
- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/notes/ww-nature-1997.pdf (english version)
- https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/41563523/Wenners__Christine___.pdf (german version)
Women in STEM
- Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing) – 2017
- Still Failing at Fairness: How Gender Bias Cheats Girls and Boys in School and What We Can Do About It – 2009
- Failing at Fairness: How America’s Schools Cheat Girls – 1995
Contingent Faculty
- https://chroniclevitae.com/news/984-contingency-and-gender#sthash.oB2tvFsc.dpuf
- More about the pink collar workforce and contingent women faculty organizing and unionizing: https://www.thenation.com/article/academias-pink-collar-workforce/
- New Faculty Majority research on gender disparity among contingent faculty: http://www.newfacultymajority.info/women-and-contingency-project/
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