Joyce Mushaben is an American political scientist.
17 Facts About Joyce Mushaben
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Joyce Marie Mushaben was born in Ohio in 1952 to Elaine and Howard J Mushaben.
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Joyce Mushaben graduated from Archbishop McNicholas High School of Cincinnati, as the class salutatorian in 1970.
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In 1980, Joyce Mushaben was hired as an assistant professor in the political science department at the University of Missouri in St Louis.
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Joyce Mushaben was promoted as an associate professor at UMSL in 1987, and was a Ford fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington, DC in 1989 and 1990.
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Joyce Mushaben worked as a research associate at Georgetown University in 1990 and 1991, and shortly thereafter, married Harry F Few, with whom she would have children before his death in 2014.
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In 1992, Joyce Mushaben entered discussions at UMSL for a promotion to full professor.
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Joyce Mushaben's promotion was denied and in response, Mushaben began collecting data on the salary discrepancies between men and women faculty members.
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Joyce Mushaben was a Fulbright lecturer the following year, at the Higher Pedagogical School in Erfurt, Germany.
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Joyce Mushaben was one of the academics who founded the women's studies program at UMSL.
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Joyce Mushaben developed the curriculum for the global studies program and was named as a Curator's Distinguished Professor of comparative politics.
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Joyce Mushaben argued that unification ignited new debates on what it means to be German and that the three generations born after World War II had different views on national security and peace.
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Joyce Mushaben argued in articles such as "Be Careful What You Pray for: Employment Profiles among East and West Germans", that East Germans were more adaptable than their western counterparts after unification because they had already gone through many structural changes, making them resilient, flexible and more willing to take risks.
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Joyce Mushaben's works analyzed feminist positions and their differences between East and West German women and she concluded that East German women lost more from the unification process than women in the west, because abortion, childcare provisions and job protections were eliminated with unification.
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Joyce Mushaben has investigated the Muslim population and how it is perceived by some feminists as not compatible with German identity because of issues such as forcing women to wear headscarves or marry.
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Joyce Mushaben argued that Muslim women in Germany, and Europe more generally, would eventually modify their own gender relationships without the state needing to intervene.
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Joyce Mushaben has written a biography of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and compared her leadership trajectory with that of Hillary Clinton, former United States Secretary of State, Senator, and First Lady.