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Travelling towards a mirage?
gender, leadership & higher education
By
Tanya Fitzgerald and Jane Wilkinson.
ISBN: 978-1921214-68-4
AUD $59.50 + p&p.
About
There can be little doubt that universities benefit from diversity in their student and staff population. Yet why do women remain under-represented in senior academic leadership roles and in key positions along the academic career ladder? Why do women not advance at a rate proportional to that of their male peers? How do institutional policy and policy discourses influence decisions in regard to who occupies senior roles? In this book the authors use the metaphor of a mirage to map the current climate in higher education and examine whether equity and equality policies and practices have had an impact on the participation of women as leaders and managers in higher education.
This book will be of interest to those working in the fields of educational leadership, gender studies, and higher education as researchers, teachers, postgraduate students and practitioners. The authors offer a comparative approach to examining and understanding how gender and leadership are played out in various institutions of higher education across Australia and New Zealand.
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Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introducing the terrain
- Mapping the terrain: Gender, leadership and higher education
- Reading signs: Gender and leadership
- Charting the territory
- Reading against the grain
- Present and absent? Theorising participation
- References
- Index