Bozzon, R, Murgia, A orcid.org/0000-0002-9740-4532 and Villa, P (2017) Precariousness and Gender Asymmetries Among Early Career Researchers: A Focus on STEM Fields in the Italian Academia. Polis: Ricerche e studi su società e politica in Italia, 2017 (1). pp. 127-158. ISSN 1120-9488
Abstract
This article analyses how the growing instability and uncertainty in the Italian academic system intersect the mechanisms that reproduce gender disadvantages in scientific careers. More precisely, it focuses on how job instability influence career chances among male and female PhD holders at the very beginning of their career in STEM disciplines, paying attention to the mechanisms that foster the exclusion from the academic system. On the base of the results of the Doctorate Holders' Vocactional Integration survey, conducted by ISTAT in 2014, and of a qualitative organisational case study conducted in an Italian STEM department, working conditions and career strategies of male and female early stages researchers are explored adopting both an objective and a subjective perspective. The analyses point out that the current precarisation of scientific careers does not seem to scratch and/or undermine the organisational culture in the Italian universities, which relies on a traditional gender model.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is an author produced version of a paper published in Polis: Ricerche e studi su società e politica in Italia. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Academic Careers; Precariousness; Gender Asymmetries; STEM Fields of Study; Mixed-Methods Approach |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Work and Employment Relation Division (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 Apr 2017 11:51 |
Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2018 00:39 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1424/86082 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Il Mulino |
Identification Number: | 10.1424/86082 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:115542 |