Challenges and Opportunities for Building Alliances for Greater Gender Equality. A Commentary on the Symposium “Don’t Fix Women, Fix Academia? Gender Inequality in National Academic Contexts”
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Gender inequality, comparative research, Europe, masculinity, excellenceAbstract
This commentary on the collected essays brings into sharper focus some of the key advances, lessons learned but also continued challenges for tackling gender inequality in R&D. Adopting a comparative perspective across countries but also across analytical levels (micro-, meso-, and macro) demonstrates once more the widespread nature of gender inequality. Drawing on the provided insights from cases in Europe and the US regarding gender equality in R&D, it argues for the importance of building broader alliances beyond gender equality practitioners in science to unite against illiberal, anti-democratic tendencies within Europe and beyond.
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