Da li rod umanjuje karijerne potencijale žena u akademskoj profesiji? Studija slučaja polja visokog obrazovanja u Srbiji
Does Gender Impair Women’s Careers Prospects in Academic Profession? The Case Study of Higher Education in Serbia

Author(s): Isidora Jarić
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Sociology
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: gender; women; women scientists and scholars; academic profession; higher education; Serbia
Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the impact of gender on career prospects within the academic profession. The analysis is based on several different types of empirical data: (1) official statistics, (2) relevant researches on the position of women in science and the various problems they deal with, and (3) testimonials with biographical elements of renowned women scientists (including their own autobiographies, biographies, interviews, articles…). In the paper is made an attempt to interpret data from official statistics related to the representation of women within the field of higher education (including data of the representation of female students, as well as graduates of different levels of study, female employees in the positions of associates and teachers) and perceived matrix in gender distribution in contemporary and historical perspective, with the help of discursive analysis. The discursive analysis situates these data in a concrete social and historical, local and global, context and shows that gender imbalance in the historical perspective within the academic field decreases, especially in positions that generate less social power (such as student and associate positions), while in positions that generate higher levels of social power (such as teacher) gender inequalities distribution is still retained, true to a reduced extent. Based on available researches and testimonials the analysis mapping and analyzing spots of tension in: (a) societal (related to the broader social and cultural context), (b) systemic (related to higher education) and (c) individual plan, which preclude the establishment of an academic climate that will not further generate and perpetuate the matrix of gender inequalities.

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