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This study explores the gendered nature of academic work based onthe Carnegie Foundation‘s International Survey of the Academic Profession.Characterisation of related yet discrete aspects of academic work describescommonalities between men and women, and in particular, highlights theaspects that discriminate between them. Responses by men and women fromAustralia, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Mexico, Sweden, UK and USA wereanalysed within following themes: working conditions; professionalactivities of teaching, research, and service; issues of governance andmanagement, and the international dimensions of academic work.
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Poole, M., Bornholt, L. & Summers, F. An international study of the gendered nature of academic work: Some cross-cultural explorations. Higher Education 34, 373–396 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003075907126
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