The Master's thesis is addressing the sexism in higher education with focus on conceptualizations of sexism by individuals employed in pedagogic and professional positions at the Faculty at University of Ljubljana: the field of higher education is conceptualized as a gendered institution with androcentric gender regime, reproduced both at the level of formal hierarchy, where decision-making positions are largely occupied by individuals, socially recognized as men, as well as at the level of informal power relations, marked by masculine domination. On the basis of empirical research with in-deph semistructured interviews conceptualizations of sexism are addressed in relation to perception of sexism in the field of higher education, in/direct experiences with sexism, ways of responding to experienced sexism and mechanisms used for legitimation of sexism. Based on empirical qualitative research and the in-depth insight into the social reproduction of asymmetrical power relations between genders the Master's thesis presents an important contribution to the field of existing mostly quantitative research on gender inequality in higher education as it is focused on the subjective conceptualizations of sexism, the narratives about experienced sexism and processes that accompany the responses to experienced sexism or the absence of it.
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