- i.e. for men and women
- tell us first from which country you are from, or which country's situation you would like to share
- you can talk about discrimination in salaries, position/rank, promotion, entry/hiring, opportunities for growth, etc.
Hi John,
Within the last three years, my US-based institution conducted an analysis of gender salary disparities and found that there was no salary gender disparity after controlling for academic rank and academic discipline.
What was not tested was gender disparities in academic ranks. We have a two-tiered faculty system in which tenure and tenure-track are distinct from lecturer ranks (renewable annual contracts). Male faculty are much more likely to be hired on the tenure-track level; female faculty only in the lecturer ranks. In my opinion, this does result in gender salary disparities because the lecturer ranks are not paid on par with the tenure-track ranks.
Hello, I am from Nigeria and I will certainly say there is gender inequality in almost everything we do here. Its twice difficult to get promotion, opportunities for women than men. All the same, women are not giving up anytime soon. The struggle for gender equality continues in Nigeria. And its obviously getting better but we not there yet.
I can perhaps add a little, as concisely as I can, to the interesting and practical answers already posted above.
In a word, yes there is gender inequality in research in the UK, but I would like briefly to propose a justification for asserting this.
Patriarchy is often proposed, by radical and Marxist radical feminists, as the dominant power agency in generating gender inequality that favours men. For instance, Walby 1990 has attempted to theorise patriarchy from a variety of feminist perspectives, and additionally, Cockburn has written in-depth particularly from a Marxist radical feminist perspective.
Significantly, after extensive reading on this topic upto 2012, I know of no researcher that has attempted to theorise matriarchy. This is a very significant gap in gender related academic literature and represents a very obvious theoretical bias in favour of the radical feminist position. Patriarchy does not stand unopposed, and never has. Feminism is far too narrow a philosophy to oppose patriarchy effectively, since it is too limited a concept to fully incorporate the vastness of matriarchy as a power. Potentially, the concept of matriarchy has considerable theoretical value.
Given UK political rhetoric about transparency and bottom-up empowerment, theorising matriarchy may also provide a significant contribution to practice. It may be that junior career women could in future, in part facilitated by the UK's Equality Act (2010), exert significant matriarchal power to increase real, senior jobs for women, as there are often proportionately more women working at junior and trainee levels than in higher grades, at least in certain roles.
Unlike patriarchy, the term matriarchy is either inconsequentially used in current UK-based research or substantially absent from important feminist literature relating to the exercise of power in employment (See Cockburn 1983, 1985, 1991, Hakim 1996, Wajcman 1998, Walby 1990). Accepting Foucault’s (1976) assertion that deploying power creates an opposing power, the omission of matriarchy, as conceptually opposed to patriarchy, ignores the obvious conceptual dichotomy. This omission represents an enormous gap in the theorising of gender power and effectively prevents the development of a whole branch of gender research from developing.
As far as current research is concerned, radical feminism may benefit by theorising its own power base, i.e. matriarchy. Consequently, I am arguing for a rebalance of the theoretical debate in terms of research in the UK.
I hope that helps a little. Best wishes to you with your research ... Alan
Although this paper on South Korea is a few years old now, the situation is essentially the same despite being a little more visible these days.
For what I think is a pretty good look at Korea, reference.... Article Explanations for continued gender discrimination in South Ko...
Let me know if you have specific questions beyond this!
I am from Ghana. In my country gender inequality exist but not so much in academia. a tradition Ghana man would want a women to subdue to him. This mentality sometime, unconsciously, surfaces at the workplace. Male are the dominant force in many High Education institutions in Ghana; hence, it is difficult for woman to win positions. In terms of remuneration, men and women all receives same.
Dear John,
I belong to India and there is no discrimination in terms of salaries, position/rank, promotion, entry/hiring, opportunities for growth. But, there are some jobs females do not feel comfortable and so do not opt for like defense, railways. But gradually that is also getting shorted out. But once one become an employee the growth, salary are at par for all of them.
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