Blog: Compliance, Evasiveness, Barter and Investment – Why Women do more Academic Service Work

Blog: Compliance, Evasiveness, Barter and Investment – Why Women do more Academic Service Work
by Professor Nanna Mik-Meyer, Department of Organization (IOA), Copenhagen Business School), and Professor Margaretha Järvinen, Department of Sociology,  Copenhagen University

Drawing on qualitative data and CV evidence Margaretha Järvinen and Nanna Mik-Meyer explore the gendered nature of academic service work and highlight how different expectations and strategies effect the workloads and career prospects of academic women.

They are not the first to show that women are more involved in academic service than men. However, in their recent study they wanted to take these findings further and explore the mechanisms behind this unequal distribution.

In essence, their research shows that men are more successful in pursuing individual interests against service demands and how this depends on their relational work as well as organisational role expectations, reducing women’s prospects of saying no.

Read the blog here