scholarly journals Academics as Agentic Superheroes: Female academics’ lack of fit with the agentic stereotype of success limits their career advancement

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Van Veelen ◽  
Belle Derks
Keyword(s):  
Career Advancement ◽  
Lack Of Fit

scholarly journals Academics as Superheroes: Female academics' lack of fit with the masculine stereotype of success limits their career advancement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth van Veelen ◽  
Belle Derks
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Academic Cultures ◽  
Lack Of Fit ◽  
Dutch Universities ◽  
Successful Academic

Gender gaps in academia persist with women being less likely to attain leadership, earning less salary, and receiving less research funding and resources compared to their male peers. The current research proposes yet another gender gap in academia called lack of fit, whereby compared to male academics, female academics perceive themselves to fit less well with the masculine 'superhero' stereotype of the successful academic. Results from a nationwide survey performed on all Dutch universities (N = 3978) demonstrated that academics perceive agency (e.g., self-confident, self-focused, competitive) as more descriptive of the stereotypical successful academic than communality (e.g., team-oriented, good teacher, collegial). Moreover, early career female academics perceived highest lack of fit with this agentic occupational stereotype, which predicted lower work engagement, career efficacy and career identification, and higher stress and exit intentions. Implications for building more inclusive academic cultures, where not only agentic, but also communal academic practice is recognized and rewarded are discussed.

Push and pull: The influence of race/ethnicity on agency in doctoral student career advancement.

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 232-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey J. Jaeger ◽  
Allison Mitchall ◽  
KerryAnn O'Meara ◽  
Ashley Grantham ◽  
Jingjing Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Career Advancement ◽  
Doctoral Student ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Push And Pull

Changing patterns of migration to Australia's Northern Territory: Evidence of new forms of escalator migration to frontier regions?

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Martel ◽  
Andrew Taylor ◽  
Dean Carson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
New Perspective

Building on Fielding’s idea of escalator regions as places where young people migrate (often temporarily) to get rapid career advancement, this paper proposes a new perspective on 'escalator migration' as it applies to frontier or remote regions in particular. Life events, their timing and iterations have changed in the thirty years since Fielding first coined the term ‘escalator region’, with delayed adulthood, multiple career working lives, population ageing and different dynamics between men and women in the work and family sphere. The object of this paper is to examine recent migration trends to Australia's Northern Territory for evidence of new or emerging 'escalator migrants'.

Framing Syllabi For Developing English Language Proficiency Bridging Gaps In English Teaching At The Tertiary Level

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
C. MONSINGH DANIEL
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
English Language ◽  
Global Market ◽  
English Language Proficiency ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
English Teaching

The English Language holds primacy in several levels of employment. This has drawn appeal towards the language as a valuable tool towards having an edge in ones skill set. Capitalizing on the image that English builds for ones employability and career advancement has become a trend set by employer and employee alike. It does indeed have its appeal in a global market, but its demand is due to the inability of educational institutions to provide verifiable and considerable output in students who are proficient in the English Language. Therefore the search for candidates with quality English skills is rather sparse in number. Attempts are of course made by academicians to change this reality but not to the level of a massive turnabout.

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