03521nam 2200697Ia 450 991079087130332120230126203707.00-7748-2398-410.59962/9780774823982(CKB)2550000001160442(EBL)3412814(SSID)ssj0000819098(PQKBManifestationID)11482096(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000819098(PQKBWorkID)10844452(PQKB)10451505(CEL)444277(OCoLC)795624615(CaBNVSL)slc00230720(MiAaPQ)EBC3282159(MiAaPQ)EBC3412814(Au-PeEL)EBL3412814(CaPaEBR)ebr10599097(CaONFJC)MIL490243(OCoLC)923449259(DE-B1597)661690(DE-B1597)9780774823982(EXLCZ)99255000000116044220120614d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAcademic careers and the gender gap[electronic resource] /Maureen BakerVancouver UBC Pressc20121 online resource (221 p.)0-7748-2396-8 1-299-58993-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Setting the Scene -- Gendered Patterns of Education, Work, and Family Life -- University Restructuring and Global Markets -- Social Capital and Gendered Responses to University Practices -- Gendered Families and the Motherhood Penalty -- Subjectivities and the Gender Gap -- Explaining the Academic Gender Gap -- Methodological Appendix.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 the impact of gendered families and identities and perpetuate the academic gender gap. 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.Women college teachersWomen in higher educationWork and familySex role in the work environmentUniversities and collegesSocial aspectsWomen college teachers.Women in higher education.Work and family.Sex role in the work environment.Universities and collegesSocial aspects.378.1/2082Baker Maureen1463777MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790871303321Academic careers and the gender gap3689832UNINA