Recognizing women’s academic work: exploring how the neoliberal university undermines the promotion of feminist teaching
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2025-12-17
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Feminist scholarship has contributed to a prolific body of research on the gendered consequences of neoliberal academia in recent years. This paper seeks to explore the impact of the neoliberal university management model on the promotion of Women’s, Gender, and Feminist Studies (WGFS) in university teaching, a particular type of academic work that is significantly feminized. Furthermore, it aims to recognize women’s academic work, unvalued by assessment systems, but fundamental for the maintenance of universities as transformative teaching and research institutions. This article presents the results of an interview-based study, conducted at a Spanish university, involving female academics linked to WGFS and gender equality work. The discourses of interviewees evidenced that neoliberal thinking constitutes a barrier to the development of critical studies such as WGFS. Moreover, the female academics interviewed showed a way of working at the university different from their male colleagues, involving a strong implication of time, emotion, and care, as well as a strong engagement with society that is unvalued by the academic system. This has been named in this paper as producing a ‘gender commitment gap’. These findings show the urgency to recognize the distinctiveness of women’s academic work to promote WGFS in university teaching.
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Gender studies
Neoliberal university
University teaching
Neoliberal university
University teaching
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Romero Gutiérrez, L. (2025). Recognizing women’s academic work: exploring how the neoliberal university undermines the promotion of feminist teaching. Journal of Gender Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2025.2604204