Annalisa Murgia has coordinated the European FP7 project GARCIA – Gendering the Academy and Research: Combating Career Instability and Asymmetries. She is Associate Professor at the Leeds University Business School, UK.Barbara Poggio is Co-ordinator of the Centre of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies and Vice Rector for Equality and Diversity at the University of Trento, Italy.

• IntroductionAnnalisa Murgia and Barbara PoggioPART I The State of the Art 1. Gender and Precarious Careers in Academia and Research: : Macro, Meso and Micro PerspectivesRossella Bozzon, Annalisa Murgia, Barbara Poggio 2. The Gendered Diversification of Academic Career Paths in Comparative PerspectiveNicky Le Feuvre, Pierre Bataille, Sabine Kradolfer, Maria del Rio Carral, Marie SautierPART II Academic and Research Organisations 3: Gender Budgeting to Expose Inequalities in a Precarious Academia – and Redistribute Resources to Effect ChangeFinnborg S. Steinþórsdóttir, Þorgerður Einarsdóttir, Thamar M. Heijstra, Gyða M. Pétursdóttir, Thomas Brorsen Smidt4. The Peril of Potential: Gender Practices in the Recruitment and Selection of Early-Career ResearchersChannah Herschberg, Yvonne Benschop, Marieke van den BrinkPART III Early-Career Researchers 5. Work-Life Balance Among Early-Career Researchers in Six European CountriesSanja Cukut Krilić, Majda Černič Istenič, Duška Knežević Hočevar6. A Gendered Pipeline Typology in AcademiaFarah Dubois-Shaik, Bernard Fusulier, Caroline Vincke Conclusions7. Implementing Measures to Promote Gender Equality and Career Opportunities of Early-career ResearchersFlorian Holzinger, Helene Schiffbänker, Sybille Reidl, Silvia Hafellner, Jürgen Streicher

Overall, this book is a timely and important contribution to scholarship on gender within the neoliberal academy. It succeeds in demonstrating how gender and the neoliberal university are intertwined, and reflects the ways in which this impacts women in academia. [...] I would go as far as to argue that this book should be required reading for any academic in the STEM and SSH fields.—Dr Amelia Morris, LSE Review of Books