ABSTRACT

Female respondents spoke more often about supporting their students emotionally, in addition to assisting them with technological matters, and those related to the course itself. Male respondents did not notice or respond to such needs. In sum, the pandemic has acutely made visible the fact that female academics' career progression is jeopardized by factors that have nothing to do with their effort, intellectual skill, and merit, but result from women's primary responsibility for care. The precarization of academic labor, related to the process of its commodification and marketization, negatively affects those working in lower academic ranks and under temporary, short-term working arrangements, that is, positions disproportionately filled by women and minorities. The following subchapters are to showcase the review of literature and experiences of women in Central and Eastern Europe research, teaching, administrative work, and leadership.