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gender academic careers career paths higher educationSujets proches
Professional life Careers Vocation, Choice of Student guidance Career choice Careers Guidance, Vocational Business, Choice of Vocational opportunities Guidance, Student Career counseling Choice of profession Career patterns Career planning Occupational choice Profession, Choice of Occupation, Choice of Professional services Jobs Careers Career patterns Jobs Careers Trades Career patternsCiter ce document
Kate White et al., « Gender and atypical academic careers », Ex aequo - Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Estudos sobre as Mulheres, ID : 10670/1.xpcyzn
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This article explores gender and atypical academic careers, and analyses two case histories, one in Australia and one in Portugal. While national and organisational contexts impacted on the career trajectories of these academics, the main themes of the case studies were sponsorship/mentoring, resilience and being an outsider. The analysis indicates there is a strong link between sponsorship/mentoring and resilience. Sponsorship/mentoring provides women with guidance, advice and access to job opportunities, and helps them develop resilience in the often challenging higher education (HE) organisational culture. But lack of sponsorship/mentoring can engender a sense of being excluded and cause some academic women to become ambivalent about their careers as a mechanism for survival in HE.