TY - BOOK ID - 48306668 TI - Gender and Precarious Research Careers : A Comparative Analysis AU - Murgia, Annalisa AU - Poggio, Barbara PY - 2019 SN - 1315201240 1315201275 1138708062 9781138708068 9781315201245 9781351781428 1351781421 9781351781404 1351781405 9781351781411 1351781413 PB - London : Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), DB - UniCat KW - Women in higher education. KW - Discrimination in higher education. KW - Discrimination in colleges and universities KW - Race discrimination in higher education KW - Education, Higher UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:48306668 AB - The literature on gender and science shows that scientific careers continue to be characterised - albeit with important differences among countries - by strong gender discriminations, especially in more prestigious positions. Much less investigated is the issue of which stage in the career such differences begin to show up.Gender and Precarious Research Careers aims to advance the debate on the process of precarisation in higher education and its gendered effects, and springs from a three-year research project across institutions in seven European countries: Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Iceland, Switzerland, Slovenia and Austria. Examining gender asymmetries in academic and research organisations, this insightful volume focuses particularly on early careers. It centres both on STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and SSH (Social Science and Humanities) fields.Offering recommendations to design innovative organisational policies and self-tailored 'Gender Equality Plans' to be implemented in universities and research centres, this volume will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Gender Studies, Sociology of Work and Industry, Sociology of Knowledge, Business Studies and Higher Education. ER -