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Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: This article investigates differences between statistics on gender equality in Mexico, the UK and Sweden, and similarities in women professors’ career experiences in these countries. We use Acker’s inequality regime framework, focusing on gender, to explore our data, and argue that similarities in women professors’ lived experiences are related to an image of the ideal academic. This ideal type is produced in the interplay of the university gender regime and other gender regimes, and reproduced through the process of structuration: signification, domination and legitimation. We suggest that the struggle over legitimation can also be a trigger for change.

Source: Work Employment and Society

DOI: 10.1177/09500170211041290

Authors: Laurie Cohen, Joanne Duberley, Beatriz Adriana Bustos Torres

Institutions: University of Nottingham, University of Birmingham, Universidad de Guadalajara

Language: English

Topic: Gender Diversity and Inequality

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Reduced inequalities, Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4200255489

FWCI: 3.479

Cites: 31

Cited by: 38

Related to: 10