Kathrin Zippel
Biographic Data
| ID | 286984 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathrin Zippel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathrin |
| FAMILY NAME | Zippel |
| SIGNATURE | ZIPPEL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4635-7115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
What Gets Lost in Translation? Epistemic Tensions between Translation and Diffusion in Practice-Oriented Scholarship
This paper proposes a feminist-informed metascience theory to explain the interconnected processes of idea creation, translation, and diffusion. Drawing on feminist critiques of science centered on perspective, power, and praxis, we develop a creation–diffusion model that jointly examines how ideas are created and then how the content of ideas influences their spread across academic fields. Using a nationally funded gender equity program as a cas…
Gender Equity in Higher Education During Disruptive Events: Communities of Practice in the NSF Advance Network
Equity-focused initiatives in higher education institutions (HEIs) are particularly vulnerable during times of crisis, as disruptions can stall progress and institutions may deprioritize structural change efforts. This study examines how equity advocates within the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE program, a long-standing initiative to promote gender equity in academic STEM, persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conceptualize ADVANCE no…
Wandel, Stillstand, Rückschritt? Akademische Gleichstellungs- und Diversitätspolitik zwischen historischen Errungenschaften, Symbolpolitik und Rollback
Geschlechterforschung und Gleichstellung in der Wissenschaft waren noch nie so sichtbar und institutionalisiert und zugleich so umstritten und gefährdet wie heute. Während sich Universitäten und andere Forschungseinrichtungen offiziell zu Gleichstellung und Diversität bekennen, nehmen antifeministische und anti-gender Angriffe zu. Zugleich werden strukturelle Ungleichheiten trotz wachsender formaler Institutionalisierung nur langsam abgebaut, und…
The Dismantling of the Federal Infrastructure for Gender Knowledge Production: A Feminist Analysis of US Administrative Epistemic Warfare
This article analyzes the U. S. federal assault on gender research since 2025 as epistemic warfare: state administrative power deployed to dismantle feminist knowledge infrastructures. From a feminist institutionalist perspective, decades of feminist institutionalization paradoxically rendered gender research politically governable, while neoliberal restructuring created financial dependencies enabling ideological intervention through budgetary t…
DEI as Infrastructure—And Why We’ll Miss It When Its Gone
From Funding Equity Initiatives to Research Productivity: Quantifying the Impact of NSF Advance Awards on Recipients’ Publication Trajectories
Service work in academia, including organizational change efforts, often competes with time for research, potentially affecting academic careers (tenure, promotion, and pay) through slowed publication productivity. However, little is known about how involvement in such efforts affects publication strategies or whether external funding mitigates the potentially negative impacts on research activity. The authors examine changes in publication traje…
Neoliberal Equality? Economic Frames of Gender and Diversity in EU and US Science Policies
Economic and neoliberal frames have emerged in policy discourses on gender equality and diversity in research and science in both the United States and the European Union. By analyzing 108 stakeholder reports with critical policy analysis, we compare how and why they vary between the two contexts. To explain significant variations in neoliberal frames, we draw on the theory of “frame resonance,” arguing that certain frames resonate particularly w…
Wissenschaft als Kampfzone
Seit Präsident Trumps Amtsantritt 2025 wird die US-Wissenschaft finanziell und politisch unter Druck gesetzt: Milliarden von Forschungsgeldern gestrichen, Wissenschaftsfreiheit, DEI-Programme und internationale Mobilität und Kooperationen werden beschnitten. Hochschulen werden als Feinde gesehen, die es zu bekämpfen gilt. Ziel ist eine ideologische Neuordnung, die existenzielle Schäden verursacht und den Wissenschaftsstandort USA gefährdet
Intersectional transformation or ‘gender equality+’? Intersectionality in European Union policies on research and science
This article investigates the emergence of intersectionality in EU policy discourses on gender equality in science and research, focusing on how it transforms existing equality politics. Based on critical policy analysis, we identify both limitations and potentials of this development. First, we find that, while documents often focus on the individual dimension of intersectionality, they do not necessarily neglect the structural dimension, as ind…
Translating interdisciplinary knowledge for gender equity: Quantifying the impact of NSF Advance
Background Interdisciplinarity is often hailed as a necessity for tackling real‐world challenges. We examine the prevalence and impact of interdisciplinarity in the NSF ADVANCE program, which addresses gender equity in STEM. Methods Through a quantitative analysis of authorship, references, and citations in ADVANCE publications, we compare the interdisciplinarity of knowledge produced within the program to traditional disciplinary knowledge. We u…
L'internationalisation comme critère d'excellence
pige ou opportunit pour les femmes
From Theory to Practice and Back: How the Concept of Implicit Bias was Implemented in Academe, and What this Means for Gender Theories of Organizational Change
Implicit bias is one of the most successful cases in recent memory of an academic concept being translated into practice. Its use in the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program-which seeks to promote gender equality in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) careers through institutional transformation-has raised fundamental questions about organizational change. How do advocates translate theories into practice? What makes some …
Gendered images of international research collaboration
Joan Acker's theory on gendered organizations offers important tools for understanding subtler forms of inequalities and gendered practices in the workplace. According to Acker, invisible mechanisms in organizations such as the symbolic and material/structural aspects of organizations reproduce gendered inequalities. My application of Acker's theory demonstrates how imagery itself assigns value to collaborative practices in gender stereotypical w…
Organizational interventions and the creation of gendered knowledge: US universities and NSF Advance
Universities are sites of both elite knowledge production and reproduction of intersecting gendered inequalities. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) ‘Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers’ (ADVANCE) programme uses universities’ role as self‐reflective knowledge producers to design changes promoting gender equality. This knowledge is shaped by the institutional context of its produc…
Gender equality in German universities: Vernacularising the battle for the best brains
We examine how global pressures for competitiveness and gender equality have merged into a discourse of ‘inclusive excellence’ in the twenty-first century and shaped three recent German higher education programmes. After placing these programmes in the larger discourse about gender inequalities, we focus on how they adapt current global concerns about both being ‘the best’ and increasing ‘gender equality’ in locally specific ways, a process calle…
Gender Equality in the Age of Academic Capitalism: Cassandra and Pollyanna Interpret University Restructuring
This paper explores the intersections of gender equality politics with liberal and neoliberal reform projects in universities. Ongoing struggles over governance of higher education provide the context to assess the challenges and opportunities gender equality advocates find in both academic capitalism and globalizing liberal modernity. Focusing on how diversity management and gender mainstreaming enter higher education systems, we use the claims …
Gendered patterns in international research collaborations in academia
Although women's representation in higher education nears parity with men at the undergraduate level, this representation diminishes as one ascends the academic ranks. Because gender gaps in the ‘elite’ activity of international research collaborations might contribute to the underrepresentation of women in the upper ranks, we ask if gender differences exist in participation in international collaborations and if family responsibilities constitut…
Transforming Science and Engineering: Advancing Academic Women – By Abigail Stewart, Janet Elizabeth Malley and Danielle LaVaque‐Manty
The European Union 2002 Directive on Sexual Harassment: A Feminist Success
Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union: Mobilization, Inclusion, Exclusion
In May 2004, after bringing their legislation into accordance with EU regulations, ten more countries joined the European Union. The contributors to this volume assess the impact of this historical development on gender relations in the new and old EU member states. Instead of focusing on either western or eastern Europe, this book investigates the similarities and differences in diverse parts of Europe. Although initially limited, gender equalit…
Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment refers to unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other forms of unwanted attention of a sexual nature, in a workplace or elsewhere. Legal definitions distinguish between quid pro quo sexual harassment, where putting up with these behaviors is a condition of work, and behaviors that create an intimidating, offensive, hostile environment for the victim. Its forms can be physical, verbal, gestural, visual, or gra…
Multiple Europes, Vol. 19: Gendering Europeanisation
Transnational Advocacy Networks and Policy Cycles in the European Union: The Case of Sexual Harassment
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 2004
Practices of Implementation of Sexual Harassment Policies: Individual Versus Collective Strategies 1
This article examines the implementation of sexual harassment law in the workplace in Germany and the United States. Both countries have developed different approaches to the issue, with certain trade‐offs for the pursuit of gender equality and changes in gender workplace culture. Germany has developed a corporatist, collective strategy. Yet, few German employers have adopted policies and training programs. New policy approaches focus on sexual h…
Practices of Implementation of Sexual Harassment Policies: Individual Versus Collective Strategies1
Transnational Advocacy Networks and Policy Cycles in the European Union: The Case of Sexual Harassment
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 2004
Gender Equality in the Age of Academic Capitalism: Cassandra and Pollyanna Interpret University Restructuring
This paper explores the intersections of gender equality politics with liberal and neoliberal reform projects in universities. Ongoing struggles over governance of higher education provide the context to assess the challenges and opportunities gender equality advocates find in both academic capitalism and globalizing liberal modernity. Focusing on how diversity management and gender mainstreaming enter higher education systems, we use the claims …
Gender equality in German universities: Vernacularising the battle for the best brains
We examine how global pressures for competitiveness and gender equality have merged into a discourse of ‘inclusive excellence’ in the twenty-first century and shaped three recent German higher education programmes. After placing these programmes in the larger discourse about gender inequalities, we focus on how they adapt current global concerns about both being ‘the best’ and increasing ‘gender equality’ in locally specific ways, a process calle…
From Theory to Practice and Back: How the Concept of Implicit Bias was Implemented in Academe, and What this Means for Gender Theories of Organizational Change
Implicit bias is one of the most successful cases in recent memory of an academic concept being translated into practice. Its use in the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program-which seeks to promote gender equality in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) careers through institutional transformation-has raised fundamental questions about organizational change. How do advocates translate theories into practice? What makes some …
Organizational interventions and the creation of gendered knowledge: US universities and NSF Advance
Universities are sites of both elite knowledge production and reproduction of intersecting gendered inequalities. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) ‘Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers’ (ADVANCE) programme uses universities’ role as self‐reflective knowledge producers to design changes promoting gender equality. This knowledge is shaped by the institutional context of its produc…
The European Union 2002 Directive on Sexual Harassment: A Feminist Success
Gendered patterns in international research collaborations in academia
Although women's representation in higher education nears parity with men at the undergraduate level, this representation diminishes as one ascends the academic ranks. Because gender gaps in the ‘elite’ activity of international research collaborations might contribute to the underrepresentation of women in the upper ranks, we ask if gender differences exist in participation in international collaborations and if family responsibilities constitut…
Practices of Implementation of Sexual Harassment Policies: Individual Versus Collective Strategies1
Gendered images of international research collaboration
Joan Acker's theory on gendered organizations offers important tools for understanding subtler forms of inequalities and gendered practices in the workplace. According to Acker, invisible mechanisms in organizations such as the symbolic and material/structural aspects of organizations reproduce gendered inequalities. My application of Acker's theory demonstrates how imagery itself assigns value to collaborative practices in gender stereotypical w…
Intersectional transformation or ‘gender equality+’? Intersectionality in European Union policies on research and science
This article investigates the emergence of intersectionality in EU policy discourses on gender equality in science and research, focusing on how it transforms existing equality politics. Based on critical policy analysis, we identify both limitations and potentials of this development. First, we find that, while documents often focus on the individual dimension of intersectionality, they do not necessarily neglect the structural dimension, as ind…
L'internationalisation comme critère d'excellence
pige ou opportunit pour les femmes
Practices of Implementation of Sexual Harassment Policies: Individual Versus Collective Strategies 1
This article examines the implementation of sexual harassment law in the workplace in Germany and the United States. Both countries have developed different approaches to the issue, with certain trade‐offs for the pursuit of gender equality and changes in gender workplace culture. Germany has developed a corporatist, collective strategy. Yet, few German employers have adopted policies and training programs. New policy approaches focus on sexual h…
Practices of Implementation of Sexual Harassment Policies: Individual Versus Collective Strategies1
Transnational Advocacy Networks and Policy Cycles in the European Union: The Case of Sexual Harassment
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 2004
Multiple Europes, Vol. 19: Gendering Europeanisation
Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment refers to unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other forms of unwanted attention of a sexual nature, in a workplace or elsewhere. Legal definitions distinguish between quid pro quo sexual harassment, where putting up with these behaviors is a condition of work, and behaviors that create an intimidating, offensive, hostile environment for the victim. Its forms can be physical, verbal, gestural, visual, or gra…
Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union: Mobilization, Inclusion, Exclusion
In May 2004, after bringing their legislation into accordance with EU regulations, ten more countries joined the European Union. The contributors to this volume assess the impact of this historical development on gender relations in the new and old EU member states. Instead of focusing on either western or eastern Europe, this book investigates the similarities and differences in diverse parts of Europe. Although initially limited, gender equalit…
Transforming Science and Engineering: Advancing Academic Women – By Abigail Stewart, Janet Elizabeth Malley and Danielle LaVaque‐Manty
The European Union 2002 Directive on Sexual Harassment: A Feminist Success
Gender Equality in the Age of Academic Capitalism: Cassandra and Pollyanna Interpret University Restructuring
This paper explores the intersections of gender equality politics with liberal and neoliberal reform projects in universities. Ongoing struggles over governance of higher education provide the context to assess the challenges and opportunities gender equality advocates find in both academic capitalism and globalizing liberal modernity. Focusing on how diversity management and gender mainstreaming enter higher education systems, we use the claims …
Gendered patterns in international research collaborations in academia
Although women's representation in higher education nears parity with men at the undergraduate level, this representation diminishes as one ascends the academic ranks. Because gender gaps in the ‘elite’ activity of international research collaborations might contribute to the underrepresentation of women in the upper ranks, we ask if gender differences exist in participation in international collaborations and if family responsibilities constitut…
Gender equality in German universities: Vernacularising the battle for the best brains
We examine how global pressures for competitiveness and gender equality have merged into a discourse of ‘inclusive excellence’ in the twenty-first century and shaped three recent German higher education programmes. After placing these programmes in the larger discourse about gender inequalities, we focus on how they adapt current global concerns about both being ‘the best’ and increasing ‘gender equality’ in locally specific ways, a process calle…
Gendered images of international research collaboration
Joan Acker's theory on gendered organizations offers important tools for understanding subtler forms of inequalities and gendered practices in the workplace. According to Acker, invisible mechanisms in organizations such as the symbolic and material/structural aspects of organizations reproduce gendered inequalities. My application of Acker's theory demonstrates how imagery itself assigns value to collaborative practices in gender stereotypical w…
Organizational interventions and the creation of gendered knowledge: US universities and NSF Advance
Universities are sites of both elite knowledge production and reproduction of intersecting gendered inequalities. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) ‘Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers’ (ADVANCE) programme uses universities’ role as self‐reflective knowledge producers to design changes promoting gender equality. This knowledge is shaped by the institutional context of its produc…
From Theory to Practice and Back: How the Concept of Implicit Bias was Implemented in Academe, and What this Means for Gender Theories of Organizational Change
Implicit bias is one of the most successful cases in recent memory of an academic concept being translated into practice. Its use in the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program-which seeks to promote gender equality in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) careers through institutional transformation-has raised fundamental questions about organizational change. How do advocates translate theories into practice? What makes some …
Intersectional transformation or ‘gender equality+’? Intersectionality in European Union policies on research and science
This article investigates the emergence of intersectionality in EU policy discourses on gender equality in science and research, focusing on how it transforms existing equality politics. Based on critical policy analysis, we identify both limitations and potentials of this development. First, we find that, while documents often focus on the individual dimension of intersectionality, they do not necessarily neglect the structural dimension, as ind…
Translating interdisciplinary knowledge for gender equity: Quantifying the impact of NSF Advance
Background Interdisciplinarity is often hailed as a necessity for tackling real‐world challenges. We examine the prevalence and impact of interdisciplinarity in the NSF ADVANCE program, which addresses gender equity in STEM. Methods Through a quantitative analysis of authorship, references, and citations in ADVANCE publications, we compare the interdisciplinarity of knowledge produced within the program to traditional disciplinary knowledge. We u…
L'internationalisation comme critère d'excellence
pige ou opportunit pour les femmes
DEI as Infrastructure—And Why We’ll Miss It When Its Gone
From Funding Equity Initiatives to Research Productivity: Quantifying the Impact of NSF Advance Awards on Recipients’ Publication Trajectories
Service work in academia, including organizational change efforts, often competes with time for research, potentially affecting academic careers (tenure, promotion, and pay) through slowed publication productivity. However, little is known about how involvement in such efforts affects publication strategies or whether external funding mitigates the potentially negative impacts on research activity. The authors examine changes in publication traje…
Neoliberal Equality? Economic Frames of Gender and Diversity in EU and US Science Policies
Economic and neoliberal frames have emerged in policy discourses on gender equality and diversity in research and science in both the United States and the European Union. By analyzing 108 stakeholder reports with critical policy analysis, we compare how and why they vary between the two contexts. To explain significant variations in neoliberal frames, we draw on the theory of “frame resonance,” arguing that certain frames resonate particularly w…
Wissenschaft als Kampfzone
Seit Präsident Trumps Amtsantritt 2025 wird die US-Wissenschaft finanziell und politisch unter Druck gesetzt: Milliarden von Forschungsgeldern gestrichen, Wissenschaftsfreiheit, DEI-Programme und internationale Mobilität und Kooperationen werden beschnitten. Hochschulen werden als Feinde gesehen, die es zu bekämpfen gilt. Ziel ist eine ideologische Neuordnung, die existenzielle Schäden verursacht und den Wissenschaftsstandort USA gefährdet
What Gets Lost in Translation? Epistemic Tensions between Translation and Diffusion in Practice-Oriented Scholarship
This paper proposes a feminist-informed metascience theory to explain the interconnected processes of idea creation, translation, and diffusion. Drawing on feminist critiques of science centered on perspective, power, and praxis, we develop a creation–diffusion model that jointly examines how ideas are created and then how the content of ideas influences their spread across academic fields. Using a nationally funded gender equity program as a cas…
Gender Equity in Higher Education During Disruptive Events: Communities of Practice in the NSF Advance Network
Equity-focused initiatives in higher education institutions (HEIs) are particularly vulnerable during times of crisis, as disruptions can stall progress and institutions may deprioritize structural change efforts. This study examines how equity advocates within the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE program, a long-standing initiative to promote gender equity in academic STEM, persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conceptualize ADVANCE no…
Wandel, Stillstand, Rückschritt? Akademische Gleichstellungs- und Diversitätspolitik zwischen historischen Errungenschaften, Symbolpolitik und Rollback
Geschlechterforschung und Gleichstellung in der Wissenschaft waren noch nie so sichtbar und institutionalisiert und zugleich so umstritten und gefährdet wie heute. Während sich Universitäten und andere Forschungseinrichtungen offiziell zu Gleichstellung und Diversität bekennen, nehmen antifeministische und anti-gender Angriffe zu. Zugleich werden strukturelle Ungleichheiten trotz wachsender formaler Institutionalisierung nur langsam abgebaut, und…
The Dismantling of the Federal Infrastructure for Gender Knowledge Production: A Feminist Analysis of US Administrative Epistemic Warfare
This article analyzes the U. S. federal assault on gender research since 2025 as epistemic warfare: state administrative power deployed to dismantle feminist knowledge infrastructures. From a feminist institutionalist perspective, decades of feminist institutionalization paradoxically rendered gender research politically governable, while neoliberal restructuring created financial dependencies enabling ideological intervention through budgetary t…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (11 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · European union (5 works)