Chutes and Ladders: Gendered Systems of Privilege and Marginalization in University Science Teaching

Autor/in	Doerr, Katherine
Titel	Chutes and Ladders: Gendered Systems of Privilege and Marginalization in University Science Teaching
Quelle	In: Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 16 (2023) 2, S.115-136 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Doerr, Katherine)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2637-9112
DOI	10.1080/26379112.2023.2213893
Schlagwörter	Gender Differences; College Faculty; Females; Social Status; Teaching Experience; Gender Issues; Public Colleges; Sex Fairness; Teacher Attitudes; Minority Group Teachers; STEM Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschlechterkonflikt; Fakultät; Weibliches Geschlecht; Sozialer Status; Geschlechterfrage; Sexualaufklärung; Lehrerverhalten; STEM
Abstract	This article reports on how gender shapes the work of university science faculty. Theories of gender as a social system are used to disentangle how individuals, social interactions, and institutions (re)produce inequality by sustaining occupational gender segregation in higher education science. The study uses qualitative data from an ethnography of six teaching faculty at a large research-intensive public university in the United States. These teaching faculty, largely women in a department in which the majority are men, are ineligible for tenure and institutionally positioned as having lower status. The disadvantages are experienced in different ways across all the women on the teaching faculty. In contrast, men on the teaching faculty are recognizable as scientists and are by default treated with respect. As such, they are elevated regardless of their skill as teachers. This study offers a theoretical contribution to the current understanding of gendered occupations by suggesting that the experiences of the science teaching faculty can be conceptualized as "chutes and ladders." Ladders are mechanisms reserved for the elevation of men. Chutes are reserved for women because regardless of how women approach their work, the gender system is constructed to hold them back. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01