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Gender Distributions In New Zealand Universities: Guilt In Brotopia, Hedy Huang, Jing Wang
Gender Distributions In New Zealand Universities: Guilt In Brotopia, Hedy Huang, Jing Wang
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The article sets out first to discover the gender balance in universities in New Zealand. The analysis examines three disciplinary areas: the hard and soft disciplines plus accounting, the latter as a discipline of gender balance on entry. The goal is to explain gender imbalance by advancing the problem of internal obstacles such as guilt. The article acknowledges the social constructions that engender imbalance but argues that for a sufficient explanation the internal responses to external constructions should be considered. The method involves an analysis of gender distributions at junior and senior levels in New Zealand universities, relevant case studies …
#Ustoo: Control Pathologies And Gender In East Asia, Jing Wang, Gary S. Monroe
#Ustoo: Control Pathologies And Gender In East Asia, Jing Wang, Gary S. Monroe
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Many East Asian companies employ a Confucian management style. A Confucian management style is characterized by: paternalism, centralized control, harmony and expectations of obedience (Miles and Goo, 2013).1 Accounting is a mechanism that enables control by providing knowledge that can be used to control employees and with such control come expectations of obedience. Several accounting researchers have employed the Foucauldian concepts of surveillance, enclosure and the making of efficient, docile bodies to show how accounting enables managers to discipline, control performance and exact obedience (Knights and Collinson,1987; Cowton and Dopson, 2002; Hopper and Macintiosh, 1993; Macintosh, 2002). While these case …
The Quantification Of Migrant Labour From The Pacific: Gender And The F…..G Plaza, Jing Wang, Keith Hooper, James Prescott, Nadesa Goundar
The Quantification Of Migrant Labour From The Pacific: Gender And The F…..G Plaza, Jing Wang, Keith Hooper, James Prescott, Nadesa Goundar
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Prescott and Hooper (2009) drew attention in their paper to the change for Pasifika workers having to adapt from a “commons” driven society to an “anti-commons” society. They showed how migrants coming from a task orientated society had to adapt very quickly to what the French writer Foucault (1977a) identified as a disciplinary regime characterised by measurement, and surveillance from invisible managers. Compare this with, for example, the task of fishing among an island community. Fishing depends on nature. The tides, currents, winds and weather must all be right there being no fixed time of starting.
Does A Gender Disparity Exist In Academic Rank? Evidence From An Australian University, Arusha Cooray, Reetu Verma, Lynne Wright
Does A Gender Disparity Exist In Academic Rank? Evidence From An Australian University, Arusha Cooray, Reetu Verma, Lynne Wright
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Employing a unique administrative data set on academics from the University of Wollongong (UOW), we investigate if women are under-represented in academic rank, taking into account information on personal characteristics, job characteristics, education and productivity. The results suggest that males have a significant advantage in rank attainment. The possession of a PhD, the number of years of experience and the number of journal articles, books, book chapters, competitive grants and ERA A* ranked articles appear to be important for academic rank attainment. A Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition test indicates that both supply side and demand side factors play a role; however, there …
Ability, Gender, And Performance Standards: Evidence From Academic Probation, Jason M. Lindo, Nicholas J. Sanders, Philip Oreopoulos
Ability, Gender, And Performance Standards: Evidence From Academic Probation, Jason M. Lindo, Nicholas J. Sanders, Philip Oreopoulos
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We use a regression discontinuity design to examine students' responses to being placed on academic probation. Consistent with a model of introducing performance standards, we find that being placed on probation at the end of the first year discourages some students from returning to school while improving the GPAs of those who do. We find heterogeneous responses across prior academic performance, gender, and native language, and discuss these results within the context of the model. We also find negative effects on graduation rates, particularly for students with the highest high school grades.