Thanks for this information Alpay, which attests to a 'local
variation' I mentioned in my earlier post,
> It may surprise to many, but women are in a position to dominate
> the design academia in Turkey!
> The department has 9 full time academic staff (Professor, Assoc.
> Prof., Asst. Prof. and Inst.), 7 of them are women, and all of
> them are with PhDs. ITU has the largest graduate program (MSc and
> PhD) in industrial design in the country; 65 of our 101 MSc
> students, and 38 of of 57 PhD students are women! We are based in
> the faculty of architecture, and the woman ratio in the ranks of
> academic staff in neighbouring departments such as Architecture are
> also similar. In general, it appears that almost 25% of professors
> are women in Turkey, which is relatively high compared to Western
> Europe and the US.
I direct listers to Morley's recent article on the 'feminisation
crisis discourse'. Briefly, this discourse attributes the perceived
decline of previously male-dominated domains to the influx of women
into these domains. Note the similarity to recent debates about the
'crisis' of boys' declining school achievements, ie. this has been
attributed to the recent emphasis on improving girls' achievement. As
Cullen warns, 'majority…is no guarantee of influence' (cited in
Triggs 2000, p. 149).
If we're not careful, the increasing participation of women in
academia, as Alpay's post suggests, may soon be used to explain the
demise of the university. Or, if I were a cynic, perhaps women are
able to move into and up in academia just as universities appear to
be in decline, simply because this kind of work is less attractive to
men?
teena
Morley, L. 2011, 'Misogyny posing as measurement: disrupting the
feminisation crisis discourse', Contemporary Social Science, vol. 6,
no. 2, pp. 223–35.
Triggs, T. 2000, 'Graphic design', in F. Carson & C. Pajaczkowska
(eds), Feminist visual culture, Edinburgh University Press Ltd,
Edinburgh, pp. 147–70.
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