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Choosing physics within a gendered power structure: The academic career in physics as a “deal”
Physical Review Physics Education Research ( IF 2.6 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-12 , DOI: 10.1103/physrevphyseducres.17.020101
Meytal Eran-Jona 1 , Yosef Nir 2
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This research focuses on the absence of women among academic staff in physics. To explore the causes of this gender imbalance, we focus on the decision-making junction between obtaining a Ph.D. diploma and pursuing a postdoctoral position. We use the mixed-methods paradigm, combining a nationwide representative survey of Ph.D. students in Israel (n=267 respondents out of 404 questioned) and interviews with Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows (n=38). The theoretical novelty that we propose is to view such career decision making as a “deal” that involves contextual, organizational, and individual variables and their intersection. Young women are examining the components of this deal: what it offers them and what prices they will have to pay, but their decision is made within a gendered power structure. Studying both context factors and agency, we reveal the multiple hidden ways in which gender operates as a power structure, putting up barriers to women’s academic careers. This latent power structure influences women’s decision making and experiences in several ways. In the academic field, it produces unequal competition in a male-dominated playground. In the social sphere, choosing a demanding academic career is seen as disrupting gender order. Within the family, women carry a greater burden of family work and give precedence to their husband’s career and preferences. Within this social structure, women who decide to follow an academic career feel that they must excel, and this demand for “excellence” acts as a hidden mechanism within the gendered power structure that may prevent talented women from pursuing an academic career in physics.

中文翻译:

在性别权力结构中选择物理学:物理学的学术生涯作为“交易”

这项研究的重点是物理学学术人员中女性的缺失。为了探索这种性别失衡的原因,我们关注获得博士学位和获得博士学位之间的决策交点。文凭并攻读博士后职位。我们使用混合方法范式,结合全国性的博士生调查。以色列学生(n=267404 名受访者中的受访者)和博士访谈。学生和博士后(n=38)。我们提出的理论新颖性是将这种职业决策视为一种涉及情境、组织和个人变量及其交叉点的“交易”。年轻女性正在研究这笔交易的组成部分:它为她们提供了什么以及她们必须支付的价格,但她们的决定是在性别权力结构中做出的。通过研究情境因素和能动性,我们揭示了性别作为权力结构运作的多种隐藏方式,为女性的学术生涯设置了障碍。这种潜在的权力结构以多种方式影响女性的决策和经历。在学术领域,它在男性主导的操场上产生不平等的竞争。在社会领域,选择高要求的学术职业被视为扰乱性别秩序。在家庭内部,妇女承担更大的家庭工作负担,并优先考虑丈夫的职业和喜好。在这种社会结构中,决定从事学术事业的女性认为她们必须出类拔萃,而这种对“卓越”的需求在性别权力结构中充当了一种隐藏机制,可能会阻止有才华的女性从事物理学的学术事业。
更新日期:2021-07-12
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