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1 online resource (210 p.) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Introduction -- Research and innovation in the academy : a precarious business -- Navigating career imaginaries in academia : a view from women researchers in biotechnology -- Unconventional routes into ICT work : learning from women’s own solutions for working around gendered barriers -- Changes in funding and the intensification of gender inequalities in research and innovation -- Promoting gender equality in STEM-oriented universities : institutional policy measures in Sweden, Finland and Norway -- Uniformity dressed as diversity? : reorienting female associate professors -- zShould I stay or should I go?y how early career researchers imagine the (im)possible future in academia -- zIf it has been only me, it would not have worked outy women negotiating conflicting challenges of ICT work and family in Norway -- Co-creative platforms for societal impact of research on gender issues : a comparative study of the gender academy and gender contact point -- The discourse of rurality in women’s professional-life narratives : gender and ICT in rural Norway. |
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Front Cover -- Gender Inequalities in Tech-Driven Research and Innovation: Living the Contradiction -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Gender, research and innovation -- The Nordic countries and gender equality: similarities and differences -- Structure of the volume -- Notes -- References -- 2 Research and Innovation in the Academy: A Precarious Business -- Introduction -- Digital Humanities as research and innovation in academe -- Unsettledness and Charles Tilly's inequality mechanisms |
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Methodology and data analysis -- Issue 1: Uncertain support -- the case of the work that was closed down -- Issue 2: The vicissitudes of interdisciplinarity -- Issue 3: Caught in [sic] the Scylla of project work and the Charybdis of unsettled funding -- Discussion and conclusion: The price of unsettledness and precarity -- Note -- References -- 3 Navigating Career Imaginaries in Academia: A View from Women Researchers in Biotechnology -- Introduction -- Data and method -- Future horizons of biotechnology: from hype to harsh reality -- Career imaginaries -- Tenure track positions |
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Academic entrepreneurship -- Leaving academia -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4 Unconventional Routes into ICT Work: Learning from Women's Own Solutions for Working around Gendered Barriers -- Introduction -- Women's entry points into ICT education and work: a literature review -- Theoretical framework -- Methodological framework -- Qualitative interviews with women in ICT work -- Grounded theory approach -- Three unconventional routes into ICT education and work -- A delayed entry into ICT education (route 1) -- Digitalization of (non-technical) disciplines (route 2) |
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Non-technological professions engaged in ICT research and innovation (route 3) -- Discussion: interest, ability belief and a sense of belonging -- Conclusion: documenting a failure or proposing a solution? -- References -- 5 Changes in Funding and the Intensification of Gender Inequalities in Research and Innovation -- Introduction -- Gender in competitive R&I funding -- Funding in research and innovation -- Data and method -- Gender inequality in recruitment within declining funding -- Coping with innovation funding and gendered inequality -- From hype to declining resources -- Discussion |
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Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 6 Promoting Gender Equality in STEM-oriented Universities: Institutional Policy Measures in Sweden, Finland and Norway -- Introduction -- Categorization of gender equality measures -- Targeted measures -- Training measures -- Organizational responsibility measures -- Preferential treatment measures -- Methodological underpinnings of the study: Case selection -- Data and method -- Findings -- Conclusions and discussion -- Note -- References -- 7 Uniformity Dressed as Diversity? Reorienting Female Associate Professors -- Introduction |
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The Balance project at the University of Agder |
| Summary |
EPDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This volume centres on the lived experience of women working in tech-driven research and innovation areas in the Nordic countries. |
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Open Access EbpS |
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High technology industries -- Social aspects -- Scandinavia.
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Research -- Social aspects -- Scandinavia.
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Sex discrimination -- Scandinavia.
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Industries de pointe -- Aspect social -- Scandinavie.
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Recherche -- Aspect social -- Scandinavie.
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Discrimination sexuelle -- Scandinavie.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research.
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High technology industries -- Social aspects
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Research -- Social aspects
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Sex discrimination
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Scandinavia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpPCGQRXGcPmdjv6cCRKd
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Griffin, Gabriele Gender Inequalities in Tech-driven Research and Innovation Bristol : Bristol University Press,c2022 9781529219470 |
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9781529219494 (electronic bk.) |
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1529219493 (electronic bk.) |
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AU@ 000072306647 |
