ContentsIntroduction: studying gender (in)equalities in research and sciencein different contexts 1Cristina Solera and Manuela NaldiniPART I PAINTING A QUANTITATIVE PORTRAIT:RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS IN ITALY, POLAND,IRELAND, SPAIN AND SERBIA1 Mapping the macro context: varieties of gender regimes 24Manuela Naldini, Camilla Lasagna and Cristina Solera2 Mapping the meso context: multi-area indicators for a genderportrait 49Domenico Sanseverino, Katarzyna Krzemioska and Cristina Solera3 Gendered policy perceptions across career stages: evidencefrom Italy and Serbia 75Arianna Santero, Aleksandra Drecun, Nicolò Marchesini andGiulia TattariniPART II PAINTING A QUALITATIVE PORTRAIT: MALEAND FEMALE RESEARCHERS EMBEDDED INDIFFERENT CONTEXTS4 Lived experiences of precarity: the gendered paths ofprecariousness in Italian and Polish contexts 98Paulina Sekula, Marco Cellini, Aleksandra Migalska, CloeMirenda and Rosy Musumeci5 Glass ceiling: comparing promotion and leadership acrossdifferent research organisations 117Manuela Naldini, Gema Antequera, Ivana Jaksic, SoniaMaria Llanes Guisande, Lucio Pisacane and Arianna Santero6 Passion trouble: when you balance between family and passion 136Magdalena zadkowska, Magdalena Herzberg-Kurasz, NicolòMarchesini and Rosy Musumeci7 Defining and experiencing excellence in a neoliberalacademia: comparing the views of researchers at differentcareer stages and roles 155Rosy Musumeci, Angela Balzano, Aleksandra Migalska andPaulina SekulaPART III DOING SCIENCE IN THE NEOLIBERAL AGE:CONTEXTUALISING CRITICAL ISSUES ANDLINES OF FLIGHT8 Being a researcher in the neo-liberal age: the 'how not toperish' aame--are we ready to change the rules? 175Magdalena Anita Gajewska, Serena TagliacozzoandMagdalena zadkowska9 Fixing women or fixing the system? The case of mentoring 194Cristina Solera, Marta Dziedzic, Aoife Ní Fhlatharta,Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka, Helena Mc Mahon and Sara Salerno10 Lines of flight: good practices in MINDtheGEPs' GenderEquality Plans 214Claudia Colonnello, Josepine Fernow, Federico LuigiMartaand Federica Turco11 Feminist epistemologies for gendering science and changingthe system 234Angela Balzano and Ilaria Santoemma.