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Academic Career, Mobility and the National Gender Regimes in Switzerland and Finland (2020)
Nokkala, T., Bataille, P., Siekkinen, T., & Goastellec, G. (2020). Academic Career, Mobility and the National Gender Regimes in Switzerland and Finland. In L. Weimer, & T. Nokkala (Eds.), Universities as Political Institutions : Higher Education Institutions in the Middle of Academic, Economic and Social Pressures (pp. 262-286). Brill Sense. Higher Education Research in the 21st Century Series, 12. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004422582_012
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Nokkala,Terhi; Bataille, Pierre; Siekkinen, Taru; Goastellec, Gaële
Parent publication: Universities as Political Institutions : Higher Education Institutions in the Middle of Academic, Economic and Social Pressures
Parent publication editors: Weimer, Leasa; Nokkala, Terhi
ISBN: 978-90-04-42257-5
eISBN: 978-90-04-42258-2
Journal or series: Higher Education Research in the 21st Century Series
ISSN: 2542-8837
Publication year: 2020
Number in series: 12
Pages range: 262-286
Number of pages in the book: 336
Publisher: Brill Sense
Place of Publication: Leiden
Publication country: Netherlands
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004422582_012
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Web address of parallel published publication (pre-print): https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02539311/
Abstract
The probability of reaching a permanent academic position is strongly gendered in most if not all higher education systems. Though a widely studied phenomenon, few studies problematise the way national contexts – both academic and non-academic – that shape employment structures and national gender regimes are interpreted by individual academics, and frame their career strategies and the ways of subjectively coping with the norms of academic careers. Aiming to fill this research gap, this chapter compares the subjective representations of early career academics in terms of career expectation and articulation between professional and private sphere in two contrasted national contexts; Finland and Switzerland. Focusing especially on international mobility, the paper aims to reveal how national polities matter to understand young academics’ strategies and how these strategies are shaped – or not – by gender relationships in the era of the so called ‘internationalisation’ of academic labour markets and the norm of the academic staff mobility.
Keywords: universities; institutions of higher education; tertiary education; working life; labour market; university-educated labour; research work; career development; mobility; international mobility; occupational mobility; mobility of labour; gender
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Reporting Year: 2020
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