Catalysts of Women's Success in Academic STEM: A Feminist Poststructural Discourse Analysis
This qualitative study seeks understand the phenomena that activate women's success in STEM disciplines where women's representation has not yet attained critical mass. A poststructuralist emphasis on complexity and changing nature of power relations offers a framework that illuminates the...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of international women's studies 2021, Vol.22 (1), p.83-103 |
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Zusammenfassung: | This qualitative study seeks understand the phenomena that activate women's success in STEM disciplines where women's representation has not yet attained critical mass. A poststructuralist emphasis on complexity and changing nature of power relations offers a framework that illuminates the ways in which elite academic women navigate social inequalities, hierarchies of power, and non-democratic practices. Feminist poststructural discourse analysis (FPDA) draws from the women's experiences to better understand their complex, shifting positions. Eight female tenured full professors of STEM at research-focused universities in the United States participated in the study. Data sources were in-depth semi-structured interviews, a demographic survey, and curricula vitae. Findings will help shape programs and policies aimed at increasing female representation and promoting achievement at senior levels in academic STEM fields. |
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ISSN: | 1539-8706 1539-8706 |