Gender Inequalities in Tech-driven Research and Innovation Living the Contradiction.

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EPDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This volume centres on the lived experience of women working in tech-driven research and innovation areas in the Nordic countries.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Griffin, Gabriele
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2022.
Temas:
High technology industries > Social aspects > Scandinavia.
Research > Social aspects > Scandinavia.
Sex discrimination > Scandinavia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research.
High technology industries > Social aspects.
Research > Social aspects.
Sex discrimination.
Scandinavia.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Research and innovation in the academy : a precarious business
  • Navigating career imaginaries in academia : a view from women researchers in biotechnology
  • Unconventional routes into ICT work : learning from women’s own solutions for working around gendered barriers
  • Changes in funding and the intensification of gender inequalities in research and innovation
  • Promoting gender equality in STEM-oriented universities : institutional policy measures in Sweden, Finland and Norway
  • Uniformity dressed as diversity? : reorienting female associate professors
  • “Should I stay or should I go?” : how early career researchers imagine the (im)possible future in academia
  • “If it has been only me, it would not have worked out” : women negotiating conflicting challenges of ICT work and family in Norway
  • Co-creative platforms for societal impact of research on gender issues : a comparative study of the gender academy and gender contact point
  • The discourse of rurality in women’s professional-life narratives : gender and ICT in rural Norway.
  • Front Cover
  • Gender Inequalities in Tech-Driven Research and Innovation: Living the Contradiction
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • List of tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • Gender, research and innovation
  • The Nordic countries and gender equality: similarities and differences
  • Structure of the volume
  • Notes
  • References
  • 2 Research and Innovation in the Academy: A Precarious Business
  • Introduction
  • Digital Humanities as research and innovation in academe
  • Unsettledness and Charles Tilly's inequality mechanisms
  • Methodology and data analysis
  • Issue 1: Uncertain support
  • the case of the work that was closed down
  • Issue 2: The vicissitudes of interdisciplinarity
  • Issue 3: Caught in [sic] the Scylla of project work and the Charybdis of unsettled funding
  • Discussion and conclusion: The price of unsettledness and precarity
  • Note
  • References
  • 3 Navigating Career Imaginaries in Academia: A View from Women Researchers in Biotechnology
  • Introduction
  • Data and method
  • Future horizons of biotechnology: from hype to harsh reality
  • Career imaginaries
  • Tenure track positions
  • Academic entrepreneurship
  • Leaving academia
  • Discussion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • 4 Unconventional Routes into ICT Work: Learning from Women's Own Solutions for Working around Gendered Barriers
  • Introduction
  • Women's entry points into ICT education and work: a literature review
  • Theoretical framework
  • Methodological framework
  • Qualitative interviews with women in ICT work
  • Grounded theory approach
  • Three unconventional routes into ICT education and work
  • A delayed entry into ICT education (route 1)
  • Digitalization of (non-technical) disciplines (route 2)
  • Non-technological professions engaged in ICT research and innovation (route 3)
  • Discussion: interest, ability belief and a sense of belonging
  • Conclusion: documenting a failure or proposing a solution?
  • References
  • 5 Changes in Funding and the Intensification of Gender Inequalities in Research and Innovation
  • Introduction
  • Gender in competitive R&I funding
  • Funding in research and innovation
  • Data and method
  • Gender inequality in recruitment within declining funding
  • Coping with innovation funding and gendered inequality
  • From hype to declining resources
  • Discussion
  • Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • 6 Promoting Gender Equality in STEM-oriented Universities: Institutional Policy Measures in Sweden, Finland and Norway
  • Introduction
  • Categorization of gender equality measures
  • Targeted measures
  • Training measures
  • Organizational responsibility measures
  • Preferential treatment measures
  • Methodological underpinnings of the study: Case selection
  • Data and method
  • Findings
  • Conclusions and discussion
  • Note
  • References
  • 7 Uniformity Dressed as Diversity? Reorienting Female Associate Professors
  • Introduction

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