Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/179512 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Citation: 
[Journal:] Gender and Education [ISSN:] 1360-0516 [Volume:] 28 [Issue:] 7 [Publisher:] Taylor & Francis [Place:] London [Year:] 2016 [Pages:] 867-885
Publisher: 
Taylor & Francis, London
Abstract: 
We examine how global pressures for competitiveness and gender equality have merged into a discourse of ‘inclusive excellence’ in the twenty-first century and shaped three recent German higher education programmes. After placing these programmes in the larger discourse about gender inequalities, we focus on how they adapt current global concerns about both being ‘the best’ and increasing ‘gender equality’ in locally specific ways, a process called vernacularisation. German equality advocates used ‘meeting international standards’ as leverage, drew on self-governance norms among universities, used formal gender plans as mechanisms to direct change, and set up competition to legitimate intervention. This specific incremental policy path for increasing women's status in German universities also mobilised the national funding agency and local gender equality officers as key actors, and placed particular emphasis on family friendliness as the expression of organisational commitment to gender equality.
Subjects: 
gender equality policy
Germany
science
academia
gender mainstreaming
globalisation
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Additional Information: 
Akzeptierte Manuskriptfassung (postprint) / Accepted version (postprint)
Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Accepted Manuscript (Postprint)

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