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Fathers' Stories of Resistance and Hegemony in Organizational Cultures
This article focuses on the practices of resistance and hegemony that oppose change in gender cultures in organizations. It suggests that analysis of the narratives produced by organizational actors is a fruitful method with which to deal with issues of this kind. In particular, the analysis concentrates on how resistance and hegemony practices may affect the implementation of changes promoted at a normative level — as in the case of the Italian law that has extended the right to take parental leave for childcare to men as well, in opposition to the dominant cultural models of gender. The analysis of the experiences reported by men belonging to different organizations, and having in common the use of parental leave to spend time with their children, allows us to reflect upon the fact that the symbolic orders of gender in organizations cannot be challenged at a normative level if the change does not affect the organizational culture, becoming embedded in everyday organizational practices
Gender and Precarious Research Careers : A Comparative Analysis
The literature on gender and science shows that scientific careers continue to be characterised \u2013 albeit with important differences among countries \u2013 by strong gender discriminations, especially in more prestigious positions. Much less investigated is the issue of which stage in the career such differences begin to show up.
Gender and Precarious Research Careers aims to advance the debate on the process of precarisation in higher education and its gendered effects, and springs from a three-year research project across institutions in seven European countries: Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Iceland, Switzerland, Slovenia and Austria. Examining gender asymmetries in academic and research organisations, this insightful volume focuses particularly on early careers. It centres both on STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and SSH (Social Science and Humanities) fields.
Offering recommendations to design innovative organisational policies and self-tailored \u2018Gender Equality Plans\u2019 to be implemented in universities and research centres, this volume will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Gender Studies, Sociology of Work and Industry, Sociology of Knowledge, Business Studies and Higher Education
Feedback cooling of a cantilever's fundamental mode below 5 mK
We cool the fundamental mechanical mode of an ultrasoft silicon cantilever
from a base temperature of 2.2 K to 2.9 +/- 0.3 mK using active optomechanical
feedback. The lowest observed mode temperature is consistent with limits
determined by the properties of the cantilever and by the measurement noise.
For high feedback gain, the driven cantilever motion is found to suppress or
"squash" the optical interferometer intensity noise below the shot noise level.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure
Boundary between the thermal and statistical polarization regimes in a nuclear spin ensemble
As the number of spins in an ensemble is reduced, the statistical uctuations
in its polarization eventually exceed the mean thermal polarization. This
transition has now been surpassed in a number of recent nuclear magnetic
resonance experiments, which achieve nanometer-scale detection volumes. Here,
we measure nanometer- scale ensembles of nuclear spins in a KPF6 sample using
magnetic resonance force microscopy. In particular, we investigate the
transition between regimes dominated by thermal and statistical nuclear
polarization. The ratio between the two types of polarization provides a
measure of the number of spins in the detected ensemble
Supporting Early Career Researchers through Gender Action Plans. A Design and Methodological Toolkit
Nuclear spin relaxation induced by a mechanical resonator
We report on measurements of the spin lifetime of nuclear spins strongly
coupled to a micromechanical cantilever as used in magnetic resonance force
microscopy. We find that the rotating-frame correlation time of the statistical
nuclear polarization is set by the magneto-mechanical noise originating from
the thermal motion of the cantilever. Evidence is based on the effect of three
parameters: (1) the magnetic field gradient (the coupling strength), (2) the
Rabi frequency of the spins (the transition energy), and (3) the temperature of
the low-frequency mechanical modes. Experimental results are compared to
relaxation rates calculated from the spectral density of the magneto-mechanical
noise.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Work-life interferences in the early academic career stages: The case of precarious researchers in Italy
This paper addresses the topic of work–life interferences in academic contexts. More specifically, it focuses on early career researchers in the Italian university system. The total availability required from those who work in the research sector is leading to significant transformations of the temporalities of work, especially among the new generation of researchers, whose condition is characterized by a higher degree of instability and uncertainty. Which are the experiences of the early career researchers in an academic context constituted by a growing competition for permanent positions and, as a consequence, by a greatly increased pressure? Which are the main gender differences? In what elements do Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics disciplines differ from Social Sciences and Humanities? The collected narratives reveal how the ongoing process of precarization is affecting both the everyday working activities and the private and family lives of early career researchers, with important consequences also on their future prospects
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