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Are Universities Role Models for Communities? A Gender Perspective

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

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Title Are Universities Role Models for Communities? A Gender Perspective
 
Creator MACARIE, Felicia Cornelia; Associate Professor, Public Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
MOLDOVAN, Octavian; M.A. student, Management of Public Services, Public
Administration Department, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
 
Subject gender discrimination; academia; sustainable development; local communities
 
Description The present paper explores the degree in which universities could/should serve as role models for communities from the perspective of gender integration. Although the theoretical/ moral answer would be affirmative (universities should be in such a position that would allow local communities to regard them as role models of gender integration), the primary empirical analysis leads to another conclusion. A brief theoretical review (that connects gender discrimination, sustainable development, universities and local communities) is followed by an empirical analysis that compares the management structures of 12 Romanian Universities of Advanced Research and Education (the best Romanian universities according to a national ranking) with those of four local communities where they are located (as geographic proximity would lead to a better diffusion of best practices). Contrary to initial expectations, even in higher education institutions, women are underrepresented both in executive and legislative positions. Since universities are subject to the same major patterns of gender discrimination (such as role theory, glass ceiling and glass elevator) as private and public organizations, they lose the moral high ground that theory would suggest. However, medicine and pharmacy universities that can be connected with the traditional roles attributed to women provide better gender integration, but glass escalator phenomena remain present even in these limited fields.
 
Publisher Babes Bolyai University
 
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Date 2012-12-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/322
 
Source Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2012: Special Issue; 81-97
18422845
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/322/315
 
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