Women in the Tourism Academy

While Waiting for the Dawn…

!Gender in the Tourism Academy

THE PROMPT…

Source: TRINET Discussion 16-24th January 2014 2  

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CAPACITY  EQUITY  

INDICATORS    

GENDER  BALANCE  IN  THE  TOURISM  ACADEMY  

CONFERENCES

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY FOR THE STUDY OF TOURISM

JOURNALS

OTHER

RANKING OF TOP RESEARCH PROGRAMS

Severt et al 2009

ENCYCLOPAEDIA

STRONGER  TOURISM    ACADEMY  !!!!!!!

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CIRETTOTAL = 3683

Male = 44%

Female = 33%

Unknown = 23%

TRINETTOTAL = 2266

Male = 50%

Female = 47%

Unknown = 3%

Who makes up the tourism academy?

Level 2 20%

Associate editors, Regional/Theme/Section editors

(n=6301)

male=4389 female=1780

Level 1 25%

Editor-in-Chief, Managing editor, Co-editors, etc.

(n=320)

male=237 female=79

Level 3 11%

Founding editors, Editors emeritus,

(n=38)

male=34 female=4

What is the proportion of women in journal leadership positions?

Editor-in-Chief, Managing editor, Co-editors, etc.

male=22 female=6

Level 1 20%

Associate editors, Regional/Theme/Section editors

male=662

female=223 unknown=10

Level 2 25%

Founding editors, Editors emeritus,

male=3 female=0

Level 3 0%

In top 20 tourism journals* women’s representation is even more limited

* According to Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=bus_tourismhospitality

So, what about conferences?

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Gender balance in conference leadership ~schema for analysis~

24% 38% 24%30%

Gender balance in conference leadership in 2013 (n=34)

24%

The International Academy for the Study of Tourism: 62 (87%) men

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What the data suggests

Mirrors wider trends

Women are underrepresented in the tourism academy

Historical path dependency

Neoliberal meritocratic context

Pipeline of women scholars is ‘leaking’

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3rd Interdisciplinary Tourism ResearchTurkey 2014

Tourism Social Science Conference Surrey 2011

Tourism & the Chinese DreamGold Coast 2014

Women are cognitively impaired or not ‘wired’ for success

Women are not interested in success and leadership

Sexism in practice

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But what does it all mean?

Perhaps…

•  Occupational sexism

•  Overlooked when we think of experts

•  Concentration of power is self-referential / self-reinforcing

•  “Leaning in” to leadership

•  What is canonized as ‘success’ doesn’t necessarily work for women

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I liked your response, particularly your point about the lack of women in the figures....it's a continuing issue, but at least we have people like

………., ……… and …….. to bump up the female representation!

I agree that there is a broader debate to be had about equal presentation …. However, as the co-convenor (not just a committee

member as indicated in the original email) … I must say that, indeed, expertise and fit with the conference theme were the key drivers for

selecting keynotes and panel members. I am actually not a fan of discriminating against men just because they are men... and I always get nervous about creating divides where I don't actually see them. I personally would not want to be invited as a keynote to meet some

kind of gender quota.

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WAiTWomen Academics in Tourism

GENDER EQUITY is not a women’s issue it’s a HUMAN RIGHTS issue

•  In September 2014, Ana invited 18 male colleagues to join

•  Only 3 joined

“I find this victimhood phenomenon very strange and

unsettling…”

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“I always try to get the best speakers on merit, knowledge, enthusiasm and communication skills. If

they happen to be male, female, young, old or whatever so be it ;-)”

“Unfortunately, …, this does not account for, nor compensate for, the structural inequalities in our

society.  In this case, we are talking about women and the structural inequalities facing women in our

societies and ones that are worse, obviously, in many cultures. Culture is not an excuse for inequality, in my

view.”

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Recommendations for Promoting Gender Equity and Balance in Tourism Conferences

Recommendations for Promoting Gender Equity and Balance in Tourism Publications

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