Session moderated by François Héran.
Each 30 minutepresentationis followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
Women now receive half of all doctorates awarded in Europe, but they struggle to capitalize on these educational assets when being recruited for academic positions or promoted to established professorial posts. Faced with an academic world organized around the " masculine neutral ", they not only have to convince themselves of their skills and know-how, they often have to perform " rituals of loyalty to gender norms " (Hollander, 2012), or risk rejection and stigmatization. The presentation will illustrate the contributions of a dynamic gender approach to understanding the main issues (and challenges) facing women's academic careers in Europe. Publications : Le Feuvre, N., Sümer, S., O'Connor, P. (2024) Gendered Academic Citizenship: Investigating Resources, Recognition and Belonging in Higher Education Institutions, In B. Siim & P. Stoltz (Eds.) "The Palgrave Handbook of Gender & Citizenship", Palgrave Macmillan: 469-491; O'Connor, P., Le Feuvre, N., & Sümer, S. (2023) Cross-National Variations in Postdoc Precarity: An Inquiry into the Role of Career Structures and Research Funding Models, Policy Futures in Education, 22(4), 606-624.
References
Hollander, Jocelyn A. (2012). I Demand More of People: Accountability, Interaction and Gender Change. Gender & Society. 27(1), 5-29.
Nicky Le Feuvre is Professor of Sociology of Work at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), where she is Dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. A British national, she joined UNIL after some twenty years at the University of Toulouse Jean-Jaurès (France), where she founded and directed the Simone-SAGESSE team (Savoirs, genre et rapports sociaux de sexe - EA3053). A major part of her research focuses on the process of feminization of qualified professional groups (lawyers, doctors, etc.), from a European comparative perspective. Between 2011 and 2022, she coordinated the Gender & Occupationscomponentof the NCCR LIVES Overcoming Vulnerability(https://www.centre-lives.ch/fr). At European level, she led the Dynamics of Accumulated Inequality for Seniors in Employment (DAISIE) project within the NORFACE-DIAL program(https://www.norface.net/program/dial/) and coordinated the Swiss component of the Gendering the Academy & Research (GARCIA) project on precariousness in early academic careers(www.garciaproject.eu). She has recently published several articles on the notion of academic citizenship, developed with her colleagues Sevil Sümer and Pat O'Connor. In all her research, Nicky Le Feuvre pays particular attention to the contradictory evolution of gender inequalities in contemporary European societies.
