{"id":2750,"date":"2019-12-15T18:26:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T23:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/?page_id=2750"},"modified":"2025-08-14T09:48:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:48:28","slug":"academic-abstract-becoming-canadian-immigrant-narratives-of-professional-attainment-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/our-research\/academic-abstract-becoming-canadian-immigrant-narratives-of-professional-attainment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Abstract &#8211; Academia and How Assumptions of an Unencumbered Life Disadvantage Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Academic Abstract &#8211; Academia and How Assumptions of an Unencumbered Life Disadvantage Women\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"my-path-has-not-been-a-standard-path-academia-as-a-bourdieusian-field-and-how-assumptions-of-an-unencumbered-life-disadvantage-women\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;My Path has not been a Standard Path&#8221;: Academia as a Bourdieusian Field and How Assumptions of an Unencumbered Life Disadvantage Women<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/research-2\/masculine-structures-at-canadian-universities-hinder-womens-academic-careers\/\">Research Highlights<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Academic Abstract: <\/strong>Academia represents an organizational field in the Bourdieusian sense, a field which has historically been structured around masculine norms. Drawing on interviews with female academics in Canada, we examine ways in which women navigate university structures and processes. These masculine structures and processes assume academics are unencumbered to focus on work. Using a life course approach we examine key turning points in women\u2019s academic careers. In particular, we focus on the gendered nature of conference attendance and sabbatical leaves, aspects of the academic field which have not previously received much attention, to show how masculine structures and processes around each of these points impact women. We rely on interviewees\u2019 insights to describe the challenges of fitting into, and succeeding in, a masculinized academic field. We amplify women\u2019s suggestions for changing the masculine nature of academia\u2019s structures and processes, and encourage universities to undertake gender-based analyses going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> Women academics; Gendered organizations; Life course; Bourdieu; Unencumbered<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"related-links\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Links<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Authors:<br>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sprott.carleton.ca\/profile\/merridee-bujaki\/\">Merridee Bujaki<\/a>, Ivy Bourgeault, Stephanie Gaudet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related research:<\/strong><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/research-2\/promotion-practices-at-canadian-universities-obstruct-mothers-from-reaching-top-faculty-positions\/\"><em>Care Work and Academic Motherhood: Challenges for Research and Tenure in the Canadian University<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My Path has not been a Standard Path&#8221;: Academia as a Bourdieusian Field and How Assumptions of an Unencumbered Life Disadvantage Women &nbsp; Academic Abstract: Academia represents an organizational field in the Bourdieusian sense, a field which has historically been structured around masculine norms. 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