Exploring Contemporary Challenges to Equality in Academia Gendered Higher Education and Research Under Pressure

An Introduction to Exploring Contemporary Challenges to Equality in Academia

Rodrigo Rosa

Challenges in implementing gender equality

1. Sexual and sexist harassment in Spanish universities: policy implementation and resistances against gender equality measures

Emanuela Lombardo and Maria Bustelo

2. Navigating unChartered waters: anchoring Athena SWAN into Irish HEIs

Eileen Drew

Addressing the organizational structures towards institutional change

3. Gender mainstreaming in Swedish academia: translating policy into practice

Helen Peterson and Birgitta Jordansson

4. Gender back on the agenda in higher education: perspectives of academic staff in a contemporary UK case study

Charlotte Morris, Tamsin Hinton-Smith, Rosa Marvell and Kimberley Brayson

5. Fostering collaborative approaches to gender equality interventions in higher education and research: the case of transnational and multi-institutional communities of practice

Aleksandra Thomson, Rachel Palmén, Sybille Reidl, Sarah Barnard, Sarah Beranek, Andrew R. J Dainty and Tarek M. Hassan

Towards a caring university

6. The trouble with ‘work–life balance’ in neoliberal academia: a systematic and critical review

Rodrigo Rosa

7. Women and gender equity in academia through the conceptual lens of care

Stéphanie Gaudet, Isabelle Marchand, Merridee Bujaki and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault

Exploring gender equality issues at the individual level

8. Sojourning as a wife, a mother and a daughter: a critical autoethnography of a Vietnamese doctoral student in New Zealand

Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan

9. Go the extra mile: a gender approach towards parenthood in early-career academics

Helena Bonache, Verónica Carballo, Alexandra Chas and Naira Delgado

10. Never the right time: maternity planning alongside a science career in academia

Ebru Eren

Biography

Rodrigo Rosa is a sociologist with extensive experience in projects focused on gender equality, work-life balance, and family policies across Europe. He has served as an external expert on gender, diversity, and inclusion for the European Commission and is the (co-)author of numerous publications addressing gender-related issues.