Analysing gender and institutional change in academia: evaluating the utility of feminist institutionalist approaches

ABSTRACT

This article explores research on gender and institutions for the purposes of informing analytical frameworks for research on institutional change with regard to gender equality in higher education. Drawing on feminist institutionalist studies that explore the relationship between gender, institutions and institutional continuity and change, the aim is to evaluate how this body of scholarship can be adapted to an analysis of the dynamics of gender equality plan implementation in universities.S

KEYWORDS:

• Higher education
• institutions
• institutional change
• resistance
• informal rules
• gender equality

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by the European Commission [710534].