Gender Inequalities in Tech-driven Research and Innovation : Living the Contradiction.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- “Should I stay or should I go?” : how early career researchers imagine the (im)possible future in academia
- “If it has been only me, it would not have worked out” : 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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