Benevolentni i neprijateljski seksizam kao prepreka vidljivosti naučnih doprinosa akademskih radnica u Srbiji

Abstract

This paper focuses on sexist attitudes and behaviors in the academic community that represent barriers to the development of women’s academic careers and affect the visibility of their academic contributions in the long run. From the perspective of both male and female interviewees, the observed sexism directed towards female academic workers hinders their career advancement and undermines the possibility of both women’s solidarity and radical systemic change. Sexism wrapped up in seemingly meritocratic principles supports patriarchal academic culture by making the academic contributions of female academic workers less visible in the long run. Th e analysis is based on empirical insights from exploratory research conducted in 2017 on a sample of women academic workers engaged at state universities in Niš, Novi Pazar, Novi Sad, Kragujevac and Belgrade, and focuses on the question: what factors lead to academic culture expressing benevolent and / or hostile sexism towards female academic workers, which indirectly affects the invisibility of the academic contributions of academic workers in Serbia.