The spanish equality law and the gender balance in the evaluation committees: an opportunity for women’s promotion in higher education

Despite advances in gender policy and equality laws in the twenty-first century, women are still a minority in the full professor category in Europe. Some measures establish gender quotas to balance gatekeeper positions, which will supposedly pave the way to make women’s integration into senior high...

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Autores: Gonzalez Ramos, Ana Mª, Conesa Carpintero, Ester, Pons Peregort, Olga|||0000-0002-4092-6276, Tura Solvas, Marta
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Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
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Palavra-chave:Sex discrimination against women
Sex discrimination in higher education
gender equality evaluation system quotas legislation academia
Igualtat entre els sexes
Discriminació sexual envers les dones
Discriminació sexual en l'ensenyament universitari
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Economia i organització d'empreses
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spelling The spanish equality law and the gender balance in the evaluation committees: an opportunity for women’s promotion in higher educationGonzalez Ramos, Ana MªConesa Carpintero, EsterPons Peregort, Olga|||0000-0002-4092-6276Tura Solvas, MartaSex discrimination against womenSex discrimination in higher educationgender equality evaluation system quotas legislation academiaIgualtat entre els sexesDiscriminació sexual envers les donesDiscriminació sexual en l'ensenyament universitariÀrees temàtiques de la UPC::Economia i organització d'empresesDespite advances in gender policy and equality laws in the twenty-first century, women are still a minority in the full professor category in Europe. Some measures establish gender quotas to balance gatekeeper positions, which will supposedly pave the way to make women’s integration into senior higher education positions easier. In Spain, Organic Act 3/20071 of 22 March on effective equality between women and men launched progressive norms governing gender issues, and the Spanish Science and Technology Act (2011) incorporated measures to promote effective equality in academic institutions. This paper evaluates how Spanish evaluation agencies’ compliance with implementing gender balance has affected the composition of evaluation committees and its impact on the advancement of women in science. Findings reveal some positive figures on women’s representation in recent decades, even though gender-balanced committees do not show any clear evidence of causing this effect. There seems to be no correlation between gender-balanced committees and women’s success rates, suggesting intermediate variables affect women’s low participation in competitive submissions. It explores several factors concerning two agencies’ evaluation procedures, such as formality and transparency, direct/multiple gatekeeping processes, the influence of epistemic cultures, cohorts and confidence of female candidates.20182018-08-0720182018-10-30journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501AMhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_ab4af688f83e57aainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2117/123318https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41307-018-0103-yreponame:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPCinstname:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spainhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/1233182026-05-27T15:37:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The spanish equality law and the gender balance in the evaluation committees: an opportunity for women’s promotion in higher education
title The spanish equality law and the gender balance in the evaluation committees: an opportunity for women’s promotion in higher education
spellingShingle The spanish equality law and the gender balance in the evaluation committees: an opportunity for women’s promotion in higher education
Gonzalez Ramos, Ana Mª
Sex discrimination against women
Sex discrimination in higher education
gender equality evaluation system quotas legislation academia
Igualtat entre els sexes
Discriminació sexual envers les dones
Discriminació sexual en l'ensenyament universitari
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Economia i organització d'empreses
title_short The spanish equality law and the gender balance in the evaluation committees: an opportunity for women’s promotion in higher education
title_full The spanish equality law and the gender balance in the evaluation committees: an opportunity for women’s promotion in higher education
title_fullStr The spanish equality law and the gender balance in the evaluation committees: an opportunity for women’s promotion in higher education
title_full_unstemmed The spanish equality law and the gender balance in the evaluation committees: an opportunity for women’s promotion in higher education
title_sort The spanish equality law and the gender balance in the evaluation committees: an opportunity for women’s promotion in higher education
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Gonzalez Ramos, Ana Mª
Conesa Carpintero, Ester
Pons Peregort, Olga|||0000-0002-4092-6276
Tura Solvas, Marta
author Gonzalez Ramos, Ana Mª
author_facet Gonzalez Ramos, Ana Mª
Conesa Carpintero, Ester
Pons Peregort, Olga|||0000-0002-4092-6276
Tura Solvas, Marta
author_role author
author2 Conesa Carpintero, Ester
Pons Peregort, Olga|||0000-0002-4092-6276
Tura Solvas, Marta
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Sex discrimination against women
Sex discrimination in higher education
gender equality evaluation system quotas legislation academia
Igualtat entre els sexes
Discriminació sexual envers les dones
Discriminació sexual en l'ensenyament universitari
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Economia i organització d'empreses
topic Sex discrimination against women
Sex discrimination in higher education
gender equality evaluation system quotas legislation academia
Igualtat entre els sexes
Discriminació sexual envers les dones
Discriminació sexual en l'ensenyament universitari
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Economia i organització d'empreses
description Despite advances in gender policy and equality laws in the twenty-first century, women are still a minority in the full professor category in Europe. Some measures establish gender quotas to balance gatekeeper positions, which will supposedly pave the way to make women’s integration into senior higher education positions easier. In Spain, Organic Act 3/20071 of 22 March on effective equality between women and men launched progressive norms governing gender issues, and the Spanish Science and Technology Act (2011) incorporated measures to promote effective equality in academic institutions. This paper evaluates how Spanish evaluation agencies’ compliance with implementing gender balance has affected the composition of evaluation committees and its impact on the advancement of women in science. Findings reveal some positive figures on women’s representation in recent decades, even though gender-balanced committees do not show any clear evidence of causing this effect. There seems to be no correlation between gender-balanced committees and women’s success rates, suggesting intermediate variables affect women’s low participation in competitive submissions. It explores several factors concerning two agencies’ evaluation procedures, such as formality and transparency, direct/multiple gatekeeping processes, the influence of epistemic cultures, cohorts and confidence of female candidates.
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