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Gender practices in the construction of academic excellence: Sheep with five legs
Abstract
Academic excellence is allegedly a universal and gender neutral standard of merit. This article examines exactly what is constructed as academic excellence at the micro-level, how evaluators operationalize this construct in the criteria they apply in academic evaluation, and how gender inequalities are imbued in the construction and evaluation of excellence. We challenge the view that the academic world is governed by the normative principle of meritocracy in its allocation of rewards and resources. Based on an empirical study of professorial appointments in the Netherlands, we argue that academic excellence is an evasive social construct that is inherently gendered. We show how gender is practiced in the evaluation of professorial candidates, resulting in disadvantages for women and privileges for men that accumulate to produce substantial inequalities in the construction of excellence.
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Metadata
- Authors
- van den Brink, M., & Benschop, Y.
- Venue
- Organization
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2011-07-29
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 507-524
- ISSN
- 1350-5084 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7323
- OpenAlex
- W2111128992
- Cited by
- 589
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 28.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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