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This chapter presents a collected account of narratives by women doctoral students from diverse fields to discuss the challenges that they have faced, the strategies that they have created and the alliances that they have formed with mentors and peers. The discussion focuses specifically on women’s experiences in doctoral programmes because their stories reveal the close connections that academia continues to frame between women’s bodies and the quality and value of their intellectual contributions to their fields and laboratories.
The chapter points to the imbalances that leave women at a disadvantage in academia. I draw on conversations with women academics and debates to illustrate what contemporary academia needs to do to make intellectual spaces more inclusive of and accommodating to the needs of different women.
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Müller, C. (2022). On the Need for Women’s Alliances in the Gendered Spaces of Doctoral Programmes and Academia: An Account of Challenges and Strategies. In: Mulligan, D.L., Ryan, N., Danaher, P.A. (eds) Deconstructing Doctoral Discourses. Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11016-0_6
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