Exploring and Critiquing Women’s Academic Identity in Higher Education: A Narrative Review
Academia has been characterized as traditional, hierarchical, and selective, founded on patriarchal, imperial, and colonial values that construct and maintain gendered roles and regulations. This has been proposed to disadvantage how women experience, and identify within, academia. A narrative rev...
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| author | Phillips, Matty Dzidic, Peta Castell, Emily |
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| description | Academia has been characterized as traditional, hierarchical, and selective, founded on patriarchal, imperial, and colonial
values that construct and maintain gendered roles and regulations. This has been proposed to disadvantage how women
experience, and identify within, academia. A narrative review was conducted to review the literature on women’s academic
identities and experiences, and critique the dominant ways of knowing, being, and doing in academia. Thematic synthesis
was conducted on 56 qualitative studies (published 2010–2019), illustrating the impact of these values on women’s academic
identities and experiences, and normative gendered stereotypes and practices that impact women academics. Furthermore,
existing literature is critiqued, exploring the influence of dominant ways of being and knowing (on how questions are
asked, the constructs explored, the design decisions made). By providing this commentary, future research can focus
on problematizing the system and dismantling the problematic conditions (e.g., underrepresentation, discrimination, and
gendered stereotyping) for women in academia. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-899822023-02-03T01:24:30Z Exploring and Critiquing Women’s Academic Identity in Higher Education: A Narrative Review Phillips, Matty Dzidic, Peta Castell, Emily Social Sciences Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences - Other Topics academic identity academia women academic experience gender NURSING FACULTY EXPERIENCES GENDER SCIENCE COLOR LEADERSHIP RACE UNIVERSITIES TRANSITION CHALLENGES Academia has been characterized as traditional, hierarchical, and selective, founded on patriarchal, imperial, and colonial values that construct and maintain gendered roles and regulations. This has been proposed to disadvantage how women experience, and identify within, academia. A narrative review was conducted to review the literature on women’s academic identities and experiences, and critique the dominant ways of knowing, being, and doing in academia. Thematic synthesis was conducted on 56 qualitative studies (published 2010–2019), illustrating the impact of these values on women’s academic identities and experiences, and normative gendered stereotypes and practices that impact women academics. Furthermore, existing literature is critiqued, exploring the influence of dominant ways of being and knowing (on how questions are asked, the constructs explored, the design decisions made). By providing this commentary, future research can focus on problematizing the system and dismantling the problematic conditions (e.g., underrepresentation, discrimination, and gendered stereotyping) for women in academia. 2022 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89982 10.1177/21582440221096145 English http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ SAGE Publications fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Social Sciences Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences - Other Topics academic identity academia women academic experience gender NURSING FACULTY EXPERIENCES GENDER SCIENCE COLOR LEADERSHIP RACE UNIVERSITIES TRANSITION CHALLENGES Phillips, Matty Dzidic, Peta Castell, Emily Exploring and Critiquing Women’s Academic Identity in Higher Education: A Narrative Review |
| title | Exploring and Critiquing Women’s Academic Identity in Higher Education: A Narrative Review |
| title_full | Exploring and Critiquing Women’s Academic Identity in Higher Education: A Narrative Review |
| title_fullStr | Exploring and Critiquing Women’s Academic Identity in Higher Education: A Narrative Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring and Critiquing Women’s Academic Identity in Higher Education: A Narrative Review |
| title_short | Exploring and Critiquing Women’s Academic Identity in Higher Education: A Narrative Review |
| title_sort | exploring and critiquing women’s academic identity in higher education: a narrative review |
| topic | Social Sciences Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences - Other Topics academic identity academia women academic experience gender NURSING FACULTY EXPERIENCES GENDER SCIENCE COLOR LEADERSHIP RACE UNIVERSITIES TRANSITION CHALLENGES |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89982 |