The Gendering of Excellence Through Quality Criteria: The case of the Swiss National Science Foundation Professorships in Switzerland |
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| Authors: | Fassa Farinaz Kradolfer Sabine |
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| Institution: | International Association of Universities , 1, rue Miollis, Paris, Cedex 15, F75732, France Fax: E-mail: INTERNET:76716.3005@compuserve.com |
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| Abstract: | The Swiss National Science Foundation Professorships Programme is presented as a programme that aims to promote outstanding young scholars to professorial positions. Academic excellence is presented as the main selection criterion. The emphasis put on the research portfolio and on the age of the candidates means that the beneficiaries of these professorships put forward an image of excellence that is more embedded in data-based sciences, than in the humanities and social sciences, thus strengthening the domination of a sector of scientific activity essentially occupied by men over the sector that has opened up more widely to women. This paper aims to deconstruct the criteria of academic excellence as they appear in this programme, and to show that what seem to be quality criteria are inspired by a specific model. These biases tend to undermine the gender equality aims of the programme. |
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| Keywords: | excellence criteria professorship academic careers gender inequalities |
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