Understanding the Athena SWAN award scheme for gender equality as a complex social intervention in a complex system: analysis of Silver award action plans in a comparative European perspective

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[2] Priola V(2001)The contradiction of the myth of individual merit, and the reality of a patriarchal support system in academic careers: a feminist investigation Eur J Women Stud 8 161-180

[3] Bagilhole B(2010)Unsettling universities’ incongruous, gendered bureaucratic structures: a case-study approach Gend Work Organ 18 202-230

[4] Goode J(2002)Confronting errors in the meritocracy Organization. 9 396-401

[5] Bird SR(2012)Gender practices in the construction of academic excellence: Sheep with five legs Organization. 19 507-524

[6] Scully MA(2003)Crumbling ivory towers: academic organizing and its gender effects Gend Work Organ 10 194-112

[7] van den Brink M(2007)Being female doing gender. Narratives of women in education management Gend Educ 19 21-40

[8] Benschop Y(2009)Doing gender in academic education: the paradox of visibility Gend Work Organ 16 451-470

[9] Benschop Y(2018)Setting up a dynamic framework to activate gender equality structural transformation in research organizations Science and Public Policy 46 321-338

[10] Brouns M(2017)Advancing gender equality through the Athena SWAN Charter for Women in Science: an exploratory study of women’s and men’s perceptions Health Res Policy Syst 15 12-526

[1] Parsons E(2013)Agents for change and changed agents: the micro-politics of change and feminism in the academy Gend Work Organ 20 580-598

[2] Priola V(2001)The contradiction of the myth of individual merit, and the reality of a patriarchal support system in academic careers: a feminist investigation Eur J Women Stud 8 161-180

[3] Bagilhole B(2010)Unsettling universities’ incongruous, gendered bureaucratic structures: a case-study approach Gend Work Organ 18 202-230

[4] Goode J(2002)Confronting errors in the meritocracy Organization. 9 396-401

[5] Bird SR(2012)Gender practices in the construction of academic excellence: Sheep with five legs Organization. 19 507-524

[6] Scully MA(2003)Crumbling ivory towers: academic organizing and its gender effects Gend Work Organ 10 194-112

[7] van den Brink M(2007)Being female doing gender. Narratives of women in education management Gend Educ 19 21-40

[8] Benschop Y(2009)Doing gender in academic education: the paradox of visibility Gend Work Organ 16 451-470

[9] Benschop Y(2018)Setting up a dynamic framework to activate gender equality structural transformation in research organizations Science and Public Policy 46 321-338

[10] Brouns M(2017)Advancing gender equality through the Athena SWAN Charter for Women in Science: an exploratory study of women’s and men’s perceptions Health Res Policy Syst 15 12-526