European University Institute Library

Women in global science, advancing academic careers through international collaboration, Kathrin Zippel

eng

Includes bibliographical references (page 175-199) and index

index present

non fiction

Women in global science

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952567169

Kathrin Zippel

advancing academic careers through international collaboration

Scientific and engineering research is increasingly global, and international collaboration can be essential to academic success. Yet even as administrators and policymakers extol the benefits of global science, few recognize the diversity of international research collaborations and their participants, or take gendered inequalities into account. Women in Global Science is the first book to consider systematically the challenges and opportunities that the globalization of scientific work brings to U.S. academics, especially for women faculty. Kathrin Zippel looks to the STEM fields as a case study, where gendered cultures and structures in academia have contributed to an underrepresentation of women. While some have approached underrepresentation as a national concern with a national solution, Zippel highlights how gender relations are reconfigured in global academia. For U.S. women in particular, international collaboration offers opportunities to step outside of exclusionary networks at home. International collaboration is not the panacea to gendered inequalities in academia, but, as Zippel argues, international considerations can be key to ending the steady attrition of women in STEM fields and developing a more inclusive academic world. --, Provided by publisher

A world of opportunity : science, gender, and collaboration -- Traveling abroad, coming home : ambivalent discourses on the U.S. role in global science -- The .edu bonus : gender, academic nationality, and status -- Glass fences : gendered organization of global academia -- Families and international mobility : fences or opportunities? -- Toward an inclusive world of (global) academia