Gender Inequality in Precarious Academic Work: Female Adjunct Professors in Italy

Gianluca De Angelis and Barbara Grüning International research studies and national reports point out two specific aspects which characterize women’s academic careers. First, few women advance to senior academic roles. Second, although female academics progress in numbers equivalent to their male colleagues up to a certain point, in most cases their academic career paths either stop before they arrive at tenured positions or they remain in the lower ranks of the hierarchical academic structure. Thus, while the numeric growth and temporal extension of fixed-term positions has, overall, increased women’s opportunities for researching and teaching at universities, on the other hand, […]