Barbara Bagilhole
Biographic Data
| ID | 256836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Bagilhole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Bagilhole |
| SIGNATURE | BAGILHOLE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 265 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Generation and Gender in Academia
A poisoned chalice? Why UK women engineering and technology students may receive more ‘help’ than their male peers
The UK engineering and technology (E&T) sector is male-dominated, with women facing various cultural and structural barriers in entering and developing their careers within it. Existing research in this area has focused on women's recruitment or retaining women in employment, but little has addressed women's transition to industry through the higher education (HE) system. This paper therefore explores women's experiences of HE in E&T, focusing pa…
Understanding equal opportunities and diversity: The social differentiations and intersections of inequality
How Women Engineers Do and Undo Gender: Consequences for Gender Equality
The image of engineering as a masculine profession has reproduced the perception that engineering is unsuitable for women. While various strategies have been used to try to increase the number of women entering engineering education and employment, their success has been limited. At the same time it has been argued that the way gender is ‘done’ in work can help diminish or increase inequality between the sexes. Using empirical research exploring …
It Never Struck Me as Female: Investigating Men's Entry into Female-dominated Occupations
Whilst occupational segregation by sex remains the most pervasive aspect of the labour market, some men cross gender boundaries to work in female-dominated jobs. This article explores how men who do ‘women's work’ articulate reasons for moving into such jobs. Drawing on testimonies from a purposive sample of ten British men working in non-traditional jobs, we present personal testimonies and insights that challenge existing accounts of why men en…
Prospects for Change? Structural, Cultural and Action Dimensions of the Careers of Pioneer Women Priests in the Church of England
Like other organizations the Church of England has adapted to the greater and increasing involvement of women in paid work and other parts of the public domain. However, this has been a gradual, strongly contested and painful process for the Church. In 1986, it allowed women to enter the lowest rank of the clerical profession as deacons, and after many years of hard and bitter struggle the vote was won in the General Synod to ordain women to the …
Academia and the Reproduction of Unequal Opportunities for Women
Despite the introduction of equal opportunities (EO) policies by many UK universities, academic staff continue to be male dominated, particularly at the higher levels and in the more prestigious universities. This paper draws on data from a qualitative research study undertaken in a pre-1992 UK university. The main aim of the study was to measure the effectiveness of its EO policies for women. It uses Ball’s (1993) idea of problematising policies…
Girls’ Jobs for the Boys? Men, Masculinity and Non‐Traditional Occupations
Occupational segregation by sex remains the most pervasive aspect of the labour market. In the past, most research on this topic has concentrated on explanations of women’s segregation into low paid and low status occupations, or investigations of women who have crossed gender boundaries into men’s jobs, and the potential impact on them and the occupations. In contrast, this article reports on a small‐scale, qualitative study of ten men who have …
Challenging Equal Opportunities: Changing and adapting male hegemony in academia
The academic staff in universities continue to be male dominated, particularly at the higher levels, despite the introduction by many of equal opportunities (EO) policies. This paper draws on data from a qualitative research study undertaken in an old (pre-1992) UK university. The main aim of the study was to measure the impact of gender issues on the university campus, an important part of which was the issue of the effectiveness of its EO polic…
Male and female perspectives on equality measures for the UK construction sector
There have been a number of significant research projects that have explored aspects of women's under‐representation and underachievement within the UK construction industry. These have demonstrated that, given an appropriate level of knowledge and insight, women could be attracted to the sector in greater numbers. However, they have also suggested that if women are to remain in the sector in the long‐term, then efforts must be made to ensure an …
The Contradiction of the Myth of Individual Merit, and the Reality of a Patriarchal Support System in Academic Careers: A Feminist Investigation
This article draws on data from a qualitative research study undertaken in an old (pre-1992) UK university with the main aim of investigating the issue of the gender dimension of academic careers. It examines the idea of an individualistic academic career that demands self-promotion, which is still used as a measure of achievement by those in senior positions. However, there is a basic contradiction. While this idea is upheld, men simultaneously …
Management Responses to Equal Opportunities for Ethnic Minority Women Within an NHS Hospital Trust
Individual hospitals within the NHS are having to cope with a number of competing priorities and policies in the context of difficult financial circumstances. One such policy is Equal Opportunities (EO). It is within the devolved system of individual trusts that the implementation of (EO) policy takes place. This ‘localisation’ of EO issues also applies to the tackling of racial inequalities in the field of job recruitment, training and promotion…
Gendering the Management of Change in Higher Education: A Case Study
This article reports an investigation into the influence of gender at a pre‐1992 UK university. Interviews with Heads of Departments and others defined as occupying ‘middle management’ positions reveal three distinct stances to the new higher education, of ‘collaboration’, ‘resistance’ and ‘transformation’ and the article explores how gender influences these stances. It attempts to move beyond a simple focus on gender differences, towards answeri…
The 'Gender Dimension' of both the 'Narrow' and 'Broad' Curriculum in UK Higher Education: Do women lose out in both
This article draws on data from a qualitative research study undertaken in an old UK university. The main aim of the study was to measure the impact of gender issues on the university campus, an important part of which was the issue of the curriculum. Individuals were found to operate either a 'narrow' or 'broad' definition of the term 'curriculum'. In either case, there was found to be a 'gender dimension' involved. In male-dominated disciplines…
The social construction of gendered equal opportunities in UK universities: A case study of women technicians
This article reports on research into the organizational culture of a UK university, and examines the ways in which the use of equal oppor tunities (EO) concepts and the construction of women's identities are both shifting and contradictory. A case study of women technical staff and their male managers reveals how such ambiguities act as control devices to keep women in their (subordinate) place, while preserving an image of good EO practice. The…
Kith not Kin: The Effects on Women as Givers and Receivers of Voluntary Care in Britain
Tea and Sympathy or Teetering on Social Work? An Investigation of the Blurring of the Boundaries Between Voluntary and Professional Care
As the voluntary sector, particularly the use of volunteers, has been promoted and given greater importance and responsibility by the government, and statutory personal social services have been attacked, the boundaries between voluntary and professional care have become blurred. This article investigates this phenomenon using data from a study of a Home‐Start scheme, which employs two part‐time professional workers to organize a pool of voluntee…
An Occupational Hazard Warning: Academic life can seriously damage your health. An investigation of sexual harassment of women academics in a UK university
The pervasiveness of sexual harassment in US academic institutions is widely documented. However, little is known, and little has been written about the extent of sexual harassment in UK universities. The study reported here investigates this issue through a qualitative survey of women academics in a UK university using intensive interviews. It analyses these women's perceptions and experiences of sexual harassment, from both colleagues and stude…
How to Keep a Good Woman Down: An investigation of the role of institutional factors in the process of discrimination against women academics
Women constitute a very small minority of the full time academic staff in British universities and are concentrated in the lower grades. Statistical evidence points to the fact that an important reason for this is that discrimination exists within the academic profession. However, there is very little empirical information on the nature of this discrimination and the institutional processes that serve to maintain it. The study reported here seeks…
Managing to be fair: Implementing equal opportunities in a local authority
Beyond Employment: Household, Gender and Subsistence
A Woman's Place: An Oral History of Working-Class Women 1890-1940
White-Collar Proletariat: Deskilling and Gender in Clerical Work
How Women Engineers Do and Undo Gender: Consequences for Gender Equality
The image of engineering as a masculine profession has reproduced the perception that engineering is unsuitable for women. While various strategies have been used to try to increase the number of women entering engineering education and employment, their success has been limited. At the same time it has been argued that the way gender is ‘done’ in work can help diminish or increase inequality between the sexes. Using empirical research exploring …
The Contradiction of the Myth of Individual Merit, and the Reality of a Patriarchal Support System in Academic Careers: A Feminist Investigation
This article draws on data from a qualitative research study undertaken in an old (pre-1992) UK university with the main aim of investigating the issue of the gender dimension of academic careers. It examines the idea of an individualistic academic career that demands self-promotion, which is still used as a measure of achievement by those in senior positions. However, there is a basic contradiction. While this idea is upheld, men simultaneously …
Girls’ Jobs for the Boys? Men, Masculinity and Non‐Traditional Occupations
Occupational segregation by sex remains the most pervasive aspect of the labour market. In the past, most research on this topic has concentrated on explanations of women’s segregation into low paid and low status occupations, or investigations of women who have crossed gender boundaries into men’s jobs, and the potential impact on them and the occupations. In contrast, this article reports on a small‐scale, qualitative study of ten men who have …
Beyond Employment: Household, Gender and Subsistence
Gendering the Management of Change in Higher Education: A Case Study
This article reports an investigation into the influence of gender at a pre‐1992 UK university. Interviews with Heads of Departments and others defined as occupying ‘middle management’ positions reveal three distinct stances to the new higher education, of ‘collaboration’, ‘resistance’ and ‘transformation’ and the article explores how gender influences these stances. It attempts to move beyond a simple focus on gender differences, towards answeri…
How to Keep a Good Woman Down: An investigation of the role of institutional factors in the process of discrimination against women academics
Women constitute a very small minority of the full time academic staff in British universities and are concentrated in the lower grades. Statistical evidence points to the fact that an important reason for this is that discrimination exists within the academic profession. However, there is very little empirical information on the nature of this discrimination and the institutional processes that serve to maintain it. The study reported here seeks…
Prospects for Change? Structural, Cultural and Action Dimensions of the Careers of Pioneer Women Priests in the Church of England
Like other organizations the Church of England has adapted to the greater and increasing involvement of women in paid work and other parts of the public domain. However, this has been a gradual, strongly contested and painful process for the Church. In 1986, it allowed women to enter the lowest rank of the clerical profession as deacons, and after many years of hard and bitter struggle the vote was won in the General Synod to ordain women to the …
Challenging Equal Opportunities: Changing and adapting male hegemony in academia
The academic staff in universities continue to be male dominated, particularly at the higher levels, despite the introduction by many of equal opportunities (EO) policies. This paper draws on data from a qualitative research study undertaken in an old (pre-1992) UK university. The main aim of the study was to measure the impact of gender issues on the university campus, an important part of which was the issue of the effectiveness of its EO polic…
It Never Struck Me as Female: Investigating Men's Entry into Female-dominated Occupations
Whilst occupational segregation by sex remains the most pervasive aspect of the labour market, some men cross gender boundaries to work in female-dominated jobs. This article explores how men who do ‘women's work’ articulate reasons for moving into such jobs. Drawing on testimonies from a purposive sample of ten British men working in non-traditional jobs, we present personal testimonies and insights that challenge existing accounts of why men en…
A Woman's Place: An Oral History of Working-Class Women 1890-1940
A poisoned chalice? Why UK women engineering and technology students may receive more ‘help’ than their male peers
The UK engineering and technology (E&T) sector is male-dominated, with women facing various cultural and structural barriers in entering and developing their careers within it. Existing research in this area has focused on women's recruitment or retaining women in employment, but little has addressed women's transition to industry through the higher education (HE) system. This paper therefore explores women's experiences of HE in E&T, focusing pa…
An Occupational Hazard Warning: Academic life can seriously damage your health. An investigation of sexual harassment of women academics in a UK university
The pervasiveness of sexual harassment in US academic institutions is widely documented. However, little is known, and little has been written about the extent of sexual harassment in UK universities. The study reported here investigates this issue through a qualitative survey of women academics in a UK university using intensive interviews. It analyses these women's perceptions and experiences of sexual harassment, from both colleagues and stude…
The social construction of gendered equal opportunities in UK universities: A case study of women technicians
This article reports on research into the organizational culture of a UK university, and examines the ways in which the use of equal oppor tunities (EO) concepts and the construction of women's identities are both shifting and contradictory. A case study of women technical staff and their male managers reveals how such ambiguities act as control devices to keep women in their (subordinate) place, while preserving an image of good EO practice. The…
Management Responses to Equal Opportunities for Ethnic Minority Women Within an NHS Hospital Trust
Individual hospitals within the NHS are having to cope with a number of competing priorities and policies in the context of difficult financial circumstances. One such policy is Equal Opportunities (EO). It is within the devolved system of individual trusts that the implementation of (EO) policy takes place. This ‘localisation’ of EO issues also applies to the tackling of racial inequalities in the field of job recruitment, training and promotion…
The 'Gender Dimension' of both the 'Narrow' and 'Broad' Curriculum in UK Higher Education: Do women lose out in both
This article draws on data from a qualitative research study undertaken in an old UK university. The main aim of the study was to measure the impact of gender issues on the university campus, an important part of which was the issue of the curriculum. Individuals were found to operate either a 'narrow' or 'broad' definition of the term 'curriculum'. In either case, there was found to be a 'gender dimension' involved. In male-dominated disciplines…
Tea and Sympathy or Teetering on Social Work? An Investigation of the Blurring of the Boundaries Between Voluntary and Professional Care
As the voluntary sector, particularly the use of volunteers, has been promoted and given greater importance and responsibility by the government, and statutory personal social services have been attacked, the boundaries between voluntary and professional care have become blurred. This article investigates this phenomenon using data from a study of a Home‐Start scheme, which employs two part‐time professional workers to organize a pool of voluntee…
Managing to be fair: Implementing equal opportunities in a local authority
White-Collar Proletariat: Deskilling and Gender in Clerical Work
Beyond Employment: Household, Gender and Subsistence
A Woman's Place: An Oral History of Working-Class Women 1890-1940
How to Keep a Good Woman Down: An investigation of the role of institutional factors in the process of discrimination against women academics
Women constitute a very small minority of the full time academic staff in British universities and are concentrated in the lower grades. Statistical evidence points to the fact that an important reason for this is that discrimination exists within the academic profession. However, there is very little empirical information on the nature of this discrimination and the institutional processes that serve to maintain it. The study reported here seeks…
Managing to be fair: Implementing equal opportunities in a local authority
An Occupational Hazard Warning: Academic life can seriously damage your health. An investigation of sexual harassment of women academics in a UK university
The pervasiveness of sexual harassment in US academic institutions is widely documented. However, little is known, and little has been written about the extent of sexual harassment in UK universities. The study reported here investigates this issue through a qualitative survey of women academics in a UK university using intensive interviews. It analyses these women's perceptions and experiences of sexual harassment, from both colleagues and stude…
Kith not Kin: The Effects on Women as Givers and Receivers of Voluntary Care in Britain
Tea and Sympathy or Teetering on Social Work? An Investigation of the Blurring of the Boundaries Between Voluntary and Professional Care
As the voluntary sector, particularly the use of volunteers, has been promoted and given greater importance and responsibility by the government, and statutory personal social services have been attacked, the boundaries between voluntary and professional care have become blurred. This article investigates this phenomenon using data from a study of a Home‐Start scheme, which employs two part‐time professional workers to organize a pool of voluntee…
Gendering the Management of Change in Higher Education: A Case Study
This article reports an investigation into the influence of gender at a pre‐1992 UK university. Interviews with Heads of Departments and others defined as occupying ‘middle management’ positions reveal three distinct stances to the new higher education, of ‘collaboration’, ‘resistance’ and ‘transformation’ and the article explores how gender influences these stances. It attempts to move beyond a simple focus on gender differences, towards answeri…
The 'Gender Dimension' of both the 'Narrow' and 'Broad' Curriculum in UK Higher Education: Do women lose out in both
This article draws on data from a qualitative research study undertaken in an old UK university. The main aim of the study was to measure the impact of gender issues on the university campus, an important part of which was the issue of the curriculum. Individuals were found to operate either a 'narrow' or 'broad' definition of the term 'curriculum'. In either case, there was found to be a 'gender dimension' involved. In male-dominated disciplines…
The social construction of gendered equal opportunities in UK universities: A case study of women technicians
This article reports on research into the organizational culture of a UK university, and examines the ways in which the use of equal oppor tunities (EO) concepts and the construction of women's identities are both shifting and contradictory. A case study of women technical staff and their male managers reveals how such ambiguities act as control devices to keep women in their (subordinate) place, while preserving an image of good EO practice. The…
Management Responses to Equal Opportunities for Ethnic Minority Women Within an NHS Hospital Trust
Individual hospitals within the NHS are having to cope with a number of competing priorities and policies in the context of difficult financial circumstances. One such policy is Equal Opportunities (EO). It is within the devolved system of individual trusts that the implementation of (EO) policy takes place. This ‘localisation’ of EO issues also applies to the tackling of racial inequalities in the field of job recruitment, training and promotion…
Male and female perspectives on equality measures for the UK construction sector
There have been a number of significant research projects that have explored aspects of women's under‐representation and underachievement within the UK construction industry. These have demonstrated that, given an appropriate level of knowledge and insight, women could be attracted to the sector in greater numbers. However, they have also suggested that if women are to remain in the sector in the long‐term, then efforts must be made to ensure an …
The Contradiction of the Myth of Individual Merit, and the Reality of a Patriarchal Support System in Academic Careers: A Feminist Investigation
This article draws on data from a qualitative research study undertaken in an old (pre-1992) UK university with the main aim of investigating the issue of the gender dimension of academic careers. It examines the idea of an individualistic academic career that demands self-promotion, which is still used as a measure of achievement by those in senior positions. However, there is a basic contradiction. While this idea is upheld, men simultaneously …
Academia and the Reproduction of Unequal Opportunities for Women
Despite the introduction of equal opportunities (EO) policies by many UK universities, academic staff continue to be male dominated, particularly at the higher levels and in the more prestigious universities. This paper draws on data from a qualitative research study undertaken in a pre-1992 UK university. The main aim of the study was to measure the effectiveness of its EO policies for women. It uses Ball’s (1993) idea of problematising policies…
Girls’ Jobs for the Boys? Men, Masculinity and Non‐Traditional Occupations
Occupational segregation by sex remains the most pervasive aspect of the labour market. In the past, most research on this topic has concentrated on explanations of women’s segregation into low paid and low status occupations, or investigations of women who have crossed gender boundaries into men’s jobs, and the potential impact on them and the occupations. In contrast, this article reports on a small‐scale, qualitative study of ten men who have …
Challenging Equal Opportunities: Changing and adapting male hegemony in academia
The academic staff in universities continue to be male dominated, particularly at the higher levels, despite the introduction by many of equal opportunities (EO) policies. This paper draws on data from a qualitative research study undertaken in an old (pre-1992) UK university. The main aim of the study was to measure the impact of gender issues on the university campus, an important part of which was the issue of the effectiveness of its EO polic…
Prospects for Change? Structural, Cultural and Action Dimensions of the Careers of Pioneer Women Priests in the Church of England
Like other organizations the Church of England has adapted to the greater and increasing involvement of women in paid work and other parts of the public domain. However, this has been a gradual, strongly contested and painful process for the Church. In 1986, it allowed women to enter the lowest rank of the clerical profession as deacons, and after many years of hard and bitter struggle the vote was won in the General Synod to ordain women to the …
It Never Struck Me as Female: Investigating Men's Entry into Female-dominated Occupations
Whilst occupational segregation by sex remains the most pervasive aspect of the labour market, some men cross gender boundaries to work in female-dominated jobs. This article explores how men who do ‘women's work’ articulate reasons for moving into such jobs. Drawing on testimonies from a purposive sample of ten British men working in non-traditional jobs, we present personal testimonies and insights that challenge existing accounts of why men en…
How Women Engineers Do and Undo Gender: Consequences for Gender Equality
The image of engineering as a masculine profession has reproduced the perception that engineering is unsuitable for women. While various strategies have been used to try to increase the number of women entering engineering education and employment, their success has been limited. At the same time it has been argued that the way gender is ‘done’ in work can help diminish or increase inequality between the sexes. Using empirical research exploring …
Understanding equal opportunities and diversity: The social differentiations and intersections of inequality
A poisoned chalice? Why UK women engineering and technology students may receive more ‘help’ than their male peers
The UK engineering and technology (E&T) sector is male-dominated, with women facing various cultural and structural barriers in entering and developing their careers within it. Existing research in this area has focused on women's recruitment or retaining women in employment, but little has addressed women's transition to industry through the higher education (HE) system. This paper therefore explores women's experiences of HE in E&T, focusing pa…
Generation and Gender in Academia
Sociology (18 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (15 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works)