MINDtheGEPs results: policy, GEPs & more

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The MINDtheGEPs book

Gender (In)equality in Research and Science

This groundbreaking MINDtheGEPs book offers a rich, comparative analysis of gender inequalities in science and research across different organisational and national contexts within Europe. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, it examines how gender regimes, organisational cultures and policies and neoliberal logics shape gendered careers, lived experiences and the way of doing science in research and academia.

It is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] License. It is free to read, download and share via Elgaronline, thanks to generous funding support from CIRSDe (the Research Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Turin).

Solera, C., & Naldini, M. (Eds.). (2026). Gender (in)equality in research and science. Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI: 10.4337/9781035345717

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Introduction: studying gender (in)equalities in research and science in different contexts
Cristina Solera and Manuela Naldini

Part I: Painting a quantitative portrait: research organisations in Italy, Poland, Ireland, Spain and Serbia

Mapping the macro context: varieties of gender regimes
Manuela Naldini, Camilla Lasagna and Cristina Solera
Mapping the meso context: multi-area indicators for a gender portrait
Domenico Sanseverino, Katarzyna Krzemińska and Cristina Solera
Gendered policy perceptions across career stages: evidence from Italy and Serbia
Arianna Santero, Aleksandra Drecun, Nicolò Marchesini and Giulia Tattarini

Part II: Painting a qualitative portrait: male and female researchers embedded in different contexts

Lived experiences of precarity: the gendered paths of precariousness in Italian and Polish contexts
Paulina Sekuła, Marco Cellini, Aleksandra Migalska, Cloe Mirenda and Rosy Musumeci
Glass ceiling: comparing promotion and leadership across different research organisations
Manuela Naldini, Gema Antequera, Ivana Jakšić, Sonia Maria Llanes Guisande, Lucio Pisacane and Arianna Santero
Passion trouble: when you balance between family and passion
Magdalena Żadkowska, Magdalena Herzberg-Kurasz, Nicolò Marchesini and Rosy Musumeci
Defining and experiencing excellence in a neoliberal academia: comparing the views of researchers at different career stages and roles
Rosy Musumeci, Angela Balzano, Aleksandra Migalska and Paulina Sekuła

Part III: Doing science in the neoliberal age: contextualising critical issues and lines of flight

Being a researcher in the neo-liberal age: the ‘how not to perish’ game—are we ready to change the rules?
Magdalena Anita Gajewska, Serena Tagliacozzo, and Magdalena Żadkowska
Fixing women or fixing the system? The case of mentoring
Cristina Solera, Marta Dziedzic, Aoife Ní Fhlatharta, Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka, Helena Mc Mahon and Sara Salerno
Lines of flight: good practices in MINDtheGEPs’ Gender Equality Plans
Claudia Colonnello, Josepine Fernow, Federico Luigi Marta and Federica Turco
Feminist epistemologies for gendering science and changing the system
Angela Balzano and Ilaria Santoemma

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Targeting key areas

We work to increase women's participation in research and innovation by improving their career prospects, increasing gender balance in decision-making and including gender dimensions in research content & teaching, and work to improve work-life balance.

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We promote gender equality on structural and cultural level of research organisations by fixing the system, not the women. Examining gender imbalances, designing gender equality plans for sustainable change, and monitoring and evaluating the progress we make.

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