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Organizational interventions and the creation of gendered knowledge: US universities and NSF ADVANCE

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  • Kathrin Zippel
  • Myra Marx Ferree

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Universities are sites of both elite knowledge production and reproduction of intersecting gendered inequalities. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) ‘Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers’ (ADVANCE) programme uses universities’ role as self‐reflective knowledge producers to design changes promoting gender equality. This knowledge is shaped by the institutional context of its production: NSF as a funder of scientific research; US universities as participants in highly competitive markets; managerialism as a condition of modern higher education systems; and separation of basic from applied research in the hierarchy of science. The tensions and underlying power dimensions of these contexts reveal local challenges that ADVANCE interventions navigate and the broader politics shaping what and how ADVANCE discovers. Yet, as a learning‐oriented intervention, ADVANCE changes over time to create and incorporate more gendered knowledge about inequalities, to legitimize feminist understandings of organizations, and to challenge the division between fundamental and applied knowledge.

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  • Kathrin Zippel & Myra Marx Ferree, 2019. "Organizational interventions and the creation of gendered knowledge: US universities and NSF ADVANCE," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 26(6), pages 805-821, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:gender:v:26:y:2019:i:6:p:805-821
    DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12290
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    1. Mariam Mousa & Helena J. Teede & Belinda Garth & Ingrid M. Winship & Luis Prado & Jacqueline A. Boyle, 2022. "Using a Modified Delphi Approach and Nominal Group Technique for Organisational Priority Setting of Evidence-Based Interventions That Advance Women in Healthcare Leadership," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(22), pages 1-12, November.
    2. Caitríona Ní Laoire & Carol Linehan & Uduak Archibong & Ilenia Picardi & Maria Udén, 2021. "Context matters: Problematizing the policy‐practice interface in the enactment of gender equality action plans in universities," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(2), pages 575-593, March.

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