New report finds international postdocs are often paid less than their US peers. BTW: This also applies to international faculty at the household level (they earn considerably less than their US peers). www.chronicle.com/newsletter/l...
Foreign scholars often earn less and have fewer opportunities than Americans do.
How effective are measures intended to mitigate employer biases against care work-related career disruptions? New research by Rivera et al. suggests that COVID-19 impact statements in tenure decisions at US universities mitigated caregiving and gender biases: sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11...
Berufungsakten zeigen: Die Darstellung von Berufungen als meritokratische Bestenauslese wird erst in den 1970ern alternativlos. Fragen der sozialen Passung werden deswegen nicht weniger wichtig, müssen aber seitdem meritokratisch rationalisiert werden. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Are Studies of Valuation and Evaluation 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜̈𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑔? In our contribution to the Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society - hot off the press! -, Stefan Beljean and I discuss whether social inequality is a neglected topic in Studies of Valuation and Evaluation.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Picture a radical feminist. Now picture a radical intersectional womanist. Both have existed in almost identical form (and organized!) since at least the 1810s (and before but that's not my field). (Is that shocking? No idea anymore)
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Humboldt-Universität Berlin suspends professor after allegations of sexualized violence: www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/nach-...
Gegen einen HU-Professor läuft ein Disziplinarverfahren, in dem es um sexualisierte Gewalt geht. Nun hat die Hochschulleitung nach Tagesspiegel-Informationen erste Konsequenzen gezogen.