Changing university work, freedom, flexibility and family
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 4098063 |
|---|---|
| Autores | M Nikunen (0000-0001-5618-138X, Tampere University, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2012 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Fascículo | 6 |
| Páginas | 713-729 |
| Data de publicação | 2012-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Editora | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03075079.2010.542453 |
| OpenAlex | W1984289420 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 46 |
| Referências citadas | 31 |
This article investigates what Finnish academics on short fixed-term contracts consider to be the effects of having children on work and careers. The study is framed by the context of the current state of the university sector, its neoliberal and entrepreneurial tendencies and its claims to meritocracy. Informants express relative happiness with what they see as freedom and flexibility in their work/life balance, but this can turn to anxiety about their careers when they start talking about having (or postponing) children or taking long family leave. The informants' initial depiction of an egalitarian and family-friendly workplace thus turns into one of a competitive meritocracy with demands that are not easy to meet - and which are unequal in terms of gender when the talk turns to careers. In spite of this, the ideals of the entrepreneurial university are sometimes internalized, and gender equality interpreted in a neoliberal and post-feminist way
Academic freedom · Family life · Meritocracy · Work–life balance · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Work-Family Balance Challenges · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Academic mothers as ideal workers in the USA and Finland
Academic identity crafting
“Stuck in the middle of what?”
Fair trade in building digital knowledge repositories
The dual-edged sword of tenure track involution
A temporal gaze on work-life balance in academia
Technology, multidisciplinarianism, and the university
Role Conflict and Work‐Life (Dis)Integration During the Covid‐19 Pandemic
Who Supports the Ideal Worker Norm? Group Differences and Consequences of Remote Work
Analysis of Stress Factors for Female Professors at Online Universities
Becoming an academic entrepreneur
Employees in change
Balancing academia and family life
This is us now. Collectively making sense of our new identities as parents and early career academics
Barriers and enablers of women’s academic careers in Pakistan
Governing through accountability
I am not a Gentleman academic’
Women Academics and Work–Life Balance
If you put pressure on yourself to produce then that's your responsibility’
Leadership is a sacred matter’
The silence/ing of academic women
Gendered strategies of mobility and academic career
Making choices but few changes
The ‘entrepreneurial university’, family and gender
Why Do We Have to Go Away?”
Nadando contra corriente? Resistencias a la promoción de la conciliación en las universidades españolas
International Academic Mobility in Chinese Academia
How biopower puts freedom to work
Mothers and researchers in the making
From Ibuism to Pengabdian? Exploring Invisible Work among Women Academics in Neoliberalised Indonesian Higher Education
The Glass Door of Academia
Care in times of the pandemic
The 'Work-Work Balance' in higher education
Digital conferencing in times of crisis
Complexities, challenges and implications of collaborative work within a regime of performance measurement
The temporalities of free knowledge work
Gestión del conflicto trabajo-cuidados en el ámbito científico-académico
Selling policy short? Faculty perspectives on the role of policy in addressing women's underrepresentation in engineering education
Academic careers and parenting
Conforming, accommodating, or resisting? How parents in academia negotiate their professional identity
Academics' social positioning towards the restructured management system in Finnish universities
Different people have different priorities
Incentivising academics
Academic parenting
Exploring faculty experiences in a striving university through the lens of academic capitalism
Academic women in four Mena countries
Entangled in academic capitalism? A case-study on changing ideals and practices of university research
Having, and Being Had By, “Experience”
Work‐family culture in academia
The Contradiction of the Myth of Individual Merit, and the Reality of a Patriarchal Support System in Academic Careers
The Consequences for Women in the Academic Profession of the Widespread Use of Fixed Term Contracts
Intertwined Discourses of Merit and Gender
Glass Ceiling or Iron Cage
The Impact of Flexible Working Arrangements on Work–life Conflict and Work Pressure in Ireland
Femininities/masculinities and a sense self
The New Economy, Class Condescension and Caring Labour
From Retroactivation to Futurity
Mommy tracking single women in academia when they are not mommies
The construction of academic time
Lessons for higher education
Academic identities under threat
Researching Culture
Work/Family Border Theory
Understanding the PhD as a Phase in Time
Socialization of junior researchers in new academic research environments
Women and transgression in the halls of academe
The (im)possibility of intellectual work in neoliberal regimes
Temporary Employment in the Nordic Countries
Redesigning work for work-family integration
Top Girls
Precarious Footing
| Obras citantes distintas | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 3,83 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 45 |