EGOS Women's Network Meeting 2018
Wednesday, July 4, 2018, 15:00–17:00
Wednesday, July 4, 2018, 15:00–17:00
Coffee and tea will be available in room 403 from 15:00–15:30.
At 15:30, the two parallel Round Table sessions will start (see below).
Please note: only for those who have enrolled either for Round Table A or Round Table B!
Chair: Nancy Harding (University of Bath, School of Management, United Kingdom) and Jackie Ford (Durham University Business School, United Kingdom)
‘Second’, ‘Third’ and ‘Fourth’ Wave feminisms imply the existence of sharp distinctions between generations of women. But is this necessarily the case? How can the different generations of women working in academia learn from and support each other?
What struggles did women face in the 1970s/80s that continue to be faced by women today?
What new struggles do women now experience, and are they different in kind or in expression/magnitude?
What can younger women (fourth wave feminists) learn from their predecessors?
What can second and third wave feminists learn from their successors?
What advice and insights can each generation offer the others?
How can we all support and help each other?
In this Round Table A, colleagues from different age groups and with a range of experiences will be invited to actively listen
to and hear each other’s experiences and will explore ways of drawing on each other’s strengths and contributions to strengthen
women’s voices in academia.
Chair: Henriett Primecz (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary)
Publishing pressure and high expectations from students and program managers make academic life difficult. Besides the pressures of work, the relative freedom of choosing work time, and blurred boundaries between private and work life due to the recent development of ICT result in an imbalance between work and life. Caring responsibilities are rarely distributed equally between men and women, and pressures from the academic world are demanding.
What are your experiences in combining academic work and private life?
How do you handle pressures from research, students and administration?
How do you handle urgent work expectations?
Can you slow down to focus on research, deep thoughts, and original ideas, when academic life - both research and teaching - is already speeding up?
Can you be off work at any time?
How does your private life cope within these conditions?