Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden

Cohen, Laurie; Duberley, Joanne; Adriana, Beatriz; Torres, Bustos

Abstract

This article investigates differences between statistics on gender equality in Mexico, the UK and Sweden, and similarities in women professors’ career experiences in these countries. We use Acker’s inequality regime framework, focusing on gender, to explore our data, and argue that similarities in women professors’ lived experiences are related to an image of the ideal academic. This ideal type is produced in the interplay of the university gender regime and other gender regimes, and reproduced through the process of structuration: signification, domination and legitimation. We suggest that the struggle over legitimation can also be a trigger for change.

Citation

Cohen, L., Duberley, J., Adriana, B., & Torres, B. (2021). Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden. Work, Employment and Society, 37(2), 525-544. https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170211041290

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 13, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Dec 17, 2021
• Publication Date: Dec 17, 2021
• Deposit Date: Apr 22, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 22, 2021
• Journal: Work, Employment and Society
• Print ISSN: 0950-0170
• Electronic ISSN: 1469-8722
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 37
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 525-544
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170211041290
• Keywords: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management; Economics and Econometrics; Sociology and Political Science; Accounting
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5487936
• Publisher URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09500170211041290
• Additional Information: Laurie Cohen, Joanne Duberley, Beatriz Adriana Bustos Torres. Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden. Work, Employment and Society. Copyright © 2021. DOI 10.1177/09500170211041290