Our research team is studying Pacific gender roles and the mainland academics keep interpreting our findings through Western gender theory frameworks while those of us from the islands know it's more complex than that. We're supposed to publish together but we fundamentally disagree on how to present our conclusions.
More people experience this than they realize.
Academic collaborators struggle with whose theoretical framework should guide their shared interpretation of cultural data.
“Where Are You with Pacific gender diversity?”
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