Academic Career Making and the Double-Edged Role of Academic Housework

Autor/inn/en	Heijstra, Thamar Melanie; Steinthorsdóttir, Finnborg Salome; Einarsdóttir, Thorgerdur
Titel	Academic Career Making and the Double-Edged Role of Academic Housework
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 29 (2017) 6, S.764-780 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
DOI	10.1080/09540253.2016.1171825
Schlagwörter	Career Development; Work Environment; Focus Groups; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Surveys; Familiarity; Social Capital; Resistance (Psychology); Time Perspective; College Faculty; Foreign Countries; Faculty Workload; Organizational Culture; Organizational Climate; Gender Differences; Grounded Theory; Semi Structured Interviews; Iceland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Berufsentwicklung; Arbeitsmilieu; Lehrerverhalten; Sozialkapital; Resistenz; Zeitbezug; Fakultät; Ausland; Unternehmenskultur; Organisationsklima; Geschlechterkonflikt; Island
Abstract	Internationalisation, competition and performance orientation are nowadays essential in the managing and financing of universities. This pattern has intensified with the austerity measures and fiscal consolidation that followed the financial crisis in 2008. This article examines the academic labour process and career making of academics from a gender perspective. Based on findings deriving from an Icelandic University, we argue that the austerity measures and increased focus on becoming one of the top universities in the world has changed the official responsibilities of academics. We show how "academic housework" affects academic capital and how the amount of academic housework is unequally distributed between senior academics and newcomers. While the majority of academics conform to this contemporary academic system, marginalised groups put up some resistance but with limited success. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01