...Tiffany D. Johnson James; Juanita Forrester; Natasha Reed Purpose We set out to understand workplace events that contribute to processes of devaluation. We make a case for exploring these questions in the context of academia and the lives of Black women faculty within it. Design/methodology...

...Angélica S. Gutiérrez Purpose Through the accounts of Latinx scholars in academia, this article provides an understanding of “impostorization”, which refers to the policies, practices and seemingly innocuous interactions in the environment that make (or intend to make) individuals question...

...Angela Martinez Dy Purpose This paper introduces a new approach to theorising and learning from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) women’s experiences of inequality in academia. It offers a versatile model with which the structure of a particular racist-sexist inequality regime can...

... by pointing towards alternative – and more inclusive – ways of working in academia. Design/methodology/approach The two authors engage with autoethnography and draw on their own personal experience of becoming breastfeeding academic mothers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings To understand...

... between personal and professional selves, friendship and work (Antoni et al., 2020). These two areas of literature—motherhood in academia, which helped define our classroom experience, and care (from care ethics), which helped us understand the relational epistemology that developed over...

..., and contradictions palpable in the neoliberal shaping of academia. This perspective reveals how these paradoxes, tensions, and contradictions both constrain and enable the academic (Bristow et al., 2017 ; Gleadle et al., 2007). To navigate the nature of the profession, the academic begins...

... and visible leadership roles. Social implications The findings have implications in regards to job satisfaction, productivity and the future recruitment and retention of women in academia. Furthermore, in areas where women are not researching, the questions and issues that are important to them...

... potentially contributes to gender equality in academic decision-making in terms of women’s representation and power. Over the last decennia, scholars have investigated gender inequality and gendered practices in academia, singling out structural and cultural aspects of academic organizations...

... Licensed re-use rights only Academia Policy Promotion STEM Glass ceilings Gender inequality Women have been entering academic STEM disciplines in increasing numbers since the 1980s (Burelli, 2008), yet they remain underrepresented at the senior ranks (Long and Fox, 1995 ; Valian, 1999...

... to recruit volunteers who worked in academia, had young children and took a maternity leave roughly within the previous decade. The women who met these three conditions were different in the two countries. In Finland, a number of the participants were doctoral candidates or early-career PhDs in adjunct...

...Stavroula Kalaitzi; Katarzyna Czabanowska; Sally Fowler-Davis; Helmut Brand Purpose The purpose of this paper is to map the barriers to women leadership across healthcare, academia and business, and identify barriers prevalence across sectors. A barriers thematic map, with quantitative logic...

... at: alexander.styhre@handels.gu.se © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Reflexivity Self-reflexivity Men Feminism Sex and gender issues Academia This paper is written as a reply to commentaries on our earlier text published in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (Styhre and Tienari...

... and Tienari do not always take self‐reflexivity far enough. In order to increase our understanding of why particular kinds of structural hierarchies take place in academia, it is important to locate these incidents within a system of practices that contribute to the marginalisation/privileging of certain...

... and debates of academic women in PME reflect the wider debates in academia. Originality/value PME and its relationship with gender and feminism have rarely been studied. This paper begins that task. The findings of this atypical case also add to the growing body of research on identity, gender...