Gendered Success in Higher Education: Global Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Kate White, Pat O'Connor (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 304
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book examines higher education institutions that exemplify gendered success whether in terms of the presence of women in senior positions or attempts to change a gendered organisational culture. It reflects a global perspective, drawing on case studies from eleven countries: Australia, Austria, Ireland, India, New Zealand , Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. In each country an organisation has been selected that demonstrate best practice in terms of gendered outcomes or processes. Gendered Success in Higher Education highlights both the importance and the limitations of indicators such as the proportion of women in senior positions. It proposes a new gender agenda, identifies the factors that need to be included in a model of gendered change, and provides important insights into the nature of gendered change globally and how it can be achieved.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction: The Focus on Success Stories....Pages 3-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Gender Equality as a Core Academic Value: Undoing Gender in a ‘Non-Traditional’ Swedish University....Pages 27-47
Feminist University Management: Precondition or Indicator for Success? A Case Study from Austria....Pages 49-70
Women Vice-Chancellors as Change Agents? An Australian Case Study....Pages 71-90
Changing the Gender Profile of the Professoriate: An Irish Case Study....Pages 91-109
The Exceptionalism of Women Rectors: A Case Study from Portugal....Pages 111-131
Negotiating Space for Women’s Academic Leadership within the Arab Gulf States....Pages 133-153
The Athena SWAN Charter: Promoting Commitment to Gender Equality in Higher Education Institutions in the UK....Pages 155-174
Making a Difference: National and Local Initiatives for Gender Equity in New Zealand....Pages 175-193
Promoting Gender Transformation at a Higher Education Institution in South Africa....Pages 195-214
Gendered Success and Strategies for Change in a Turkish University....Pages 215-232
Who Promotes a Gender Agenda? An Indian Case Study....Pages 233-252
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Towards a New Gender Agenda and a Model for Change....Pages 255-282
Back Matter....Pages 283-299

✦ Subjects

Business and Management, general

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