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1 online resource (210 pages) |
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text file |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
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 |
| Note |
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. |
| Access |
Open Access EbpS |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
High technology industries -- Social aspects -- Scandinavia.
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High technology industries -- Social aspects. |
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Scandinavia. |
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High technology industries. |
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Research -- Social aspects -- Scandinavia.
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Research -- Social aspects. |
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Research. |
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Sex discrimination -- Scandinavia.
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Sex discrimination. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Griffin, Gabriele Gender Inequalities in Tech-driven Research and Innovation Bristol : Bristol University Press,c2022 9781529219470 |
| ISBN |
9781529219494 (electronic book) |
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1529219493 (electronic book) |
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