Academic women’s voices on gendered divisions of work and care: ‘Working till I drop...then dropping’
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2022-11Metadata
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Sümer, S., Eslen-Ziya, H. (2022) Academic women’s voices on gendered divisions of work and care: ‘Working till I drop...then dropping’. The European Journal of Women's Studies, 30(1) 10.1177/13505068221136494Abstract
Our main goal in this article is to discuss the structural and persistent problems experienced by women academics, especially with respect to the gendered divisions of academic tasks and unequal divisions of care obligations in the domestic sphere. The analysis is based on reflexive thematic analysis of the open-ended questions of an online questionnaire on the academic work environment, work satisfaction, stress, academic duties and allocation of tasks, and thoughts on gender equality. Academics from different countries voice their lived experiences, frustrations as well as worries about their future. We aim to highlight how these issues are embedded in the structures of academic capitalism and argue against the tendency to individualise these issues in a bid to inspire an informed collective resistance.