Gender Power And Higher Education In A Globalised World

Author : Pat O'Connor,Kate White
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030696870

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Gender, Power and Higher Education in a Globalised World by Pat O'Connor,Kate White Pdf

This book examines persistent gender inequality in higher education, and asks what is preventing change from occurring. The editors and contributors argue that organizational resistance to gender equality is the key explanation; reflected in the endorsement of discourses such as excellence, choice, distorted intersectionality, revitalized biological essentialism and gender neutrality. These discourses implicitly and explicitly depict the status quo as appropriate, reasonable and fair: ultimately impeding efforts and attempts to promote gender equality. Drawing on research from around the world, this book explores the limits and possibilities of challenging these harmful discourses, focusing on the state and universities themselves as levers for change. It stresses the importance of institutional transformation, the vital contribution of feminist activists and the importance of women’s deceptively ‘small victories’ in the academy.

Author : Pat O'Connor,Kate White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 303069688X

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Gender, Power and Higher Education in a Globalised World by Pat O'Connor,Kate White Pdf

"The volume is a must-read for anyone interested in fairness and justice around gender". Professor Patricia Yancey Martin, Florida State University, USA This book examines persistent gender inequality in higher education, and asks what is preventing change from occurring. The editors and contributors argue that organizational resistance to gender equality is the key explanation; reflected in the endorsement of discourses such as excellence, choice, distorted intersectionality, revitalized biological essentialism and gender neutrality. These discourses implicitly and explicitly depict the status quo as appropriate, reasonable and fair: ultimately impeding attempts to promote gender equality. Drawing on research from around the world, this book explores the limits and possibilities of challenging these misleading discourses, focusing on the state and universities themselves as levers for change. It stresses the importance of institutional transformation, the vital contribution of feminist activists and the importance of women's deceptively 'small victories' in the academy. Pat O'Connor is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Limerick, Ireland, and Visiting Professor at the Geary Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland. She is a sociologist with a focus on gender equality in higher education institutions: particularly leadership, excellence, micropolitics, gender-based violence, equality related interventions and women's academic careers. Kate White is Adjunct Associate Professor at Federation University Australia and Director of the Women in Higher Education Management Network. Her research focuses on gender equality and leadership in higher education, women's academic careers and women in science.

Author : Jan Currie,Bev Thiele,Patricia Harris
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 0739103644

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Gendered Universities in Globalized Economies by Jan Currie,Bev Thiele,Patricia Harris Pdf

Gendered Universities in Globalized Economies combines the best in theoretical analysis and practical research in an insightful survey of the organizational culture of the university in today's globalized world. Currie, Thiele, and Harris's qualitative research--narrating the views of academics, general staff, and managers of American and Australian universities--examines the gendered power structure of university life. Gendered Universities describes the corporatized university from the inside, showing how neoliberal globalization has forced it to become more competitive, aggressive, and entrepreneurial. The authors consider why universities seem to preserve patriarchal cultures despite pervasive equal opportunity legislation and feminist activism on campus. This important study is a must read for education, gender, and policy studies scholars seeking a deeper understanding of globalization and the impact of the "new managerialism" on equity issues.

Author : B. Bagilhole,K. White
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230305953

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Gender, Power and Management by B. Bagilhole,K. White Pdf

Women are now part of senior management in higher education (HE) to varying degrees in most countries and actively contribute to the vision and strategic direction of universities. This book attempts to analyse their impact and potential impact on both organisational growth and culture

Author : Tanya Fitzgerald,Helen M. Gunter,Jon Nixon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350291829

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Intellectual Leadership, Higher Education and Precarious Times by Tanya Fitzgerald,Helen M. Gunter,Jon Nixon Pdf

This book draws on interdisciplinary social science and philosophical frameworks to offer new dimensions to debate about intellectual leadership and higher education. The chapters are focused on provoking readers to think critically about intellectual leadership in precarious times. The contributors frame critical questions about the unevenness, ambivalences, and disruptions that now mark everyday life and interactions. Rather than thinking about 'freedom from precarious times and precarity' they consider 'freedom from within' and how the sovereignty and autonomy of the individual to think and speak within the public realm might be retained, if not reclaimed. In the precarious present and in times of precarity, what has changed and why? What might now be the new social reality within which we work? Each of the contributors have been invited to take up their own perspective on what is precarious, and to examine the impacts on intellectual leadership. What does it mean to do intellectual work and be an intellectual leader? What are the implications for intellectual work and leadership if the academy itself is in precarious times?

Author : Carmen Luke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135655426

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Globalization and Women in Academia by Carmen Luke Pdf

In this cross-cultural exploration of the comparative experiences of Asian and Western women in higher education management, leading feminist theorist Carmen Luke constructs a provocative framework that situates her own standpoint and experiences alongside those of Asian women she studied over a three-year period. She conveys some of the complexity of global sweeps and trends in education and feminist discourse as they intersect with local cultural variations but also dovetail into patterns of regional similarities. Western feminist research has established that relatively few women hold senior positions in universities and colleges. Using the now common metaphor of the "glass ceiling," this research has developed a range of social, cultural, and institutional explanations for women's underrepresentation in academic life. International studies show that women in non-Western countries are also underrepresented in higher education. Yet do Western explanations and strategies for change hold for academic women working in non-Western universities? The very diversity among women's experiences calls into question many of the analytic tools, terms, claims, and solutions formulated by Western feminism. This is the first study to show how cultural differences figure into the institutional dynamics of "glass ceilings." It raises important theoretical and practical, strategic, and tactical questions about issues of cultural difference and institutional power.

Author : Sarah Barnard,Gail Crimmins
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889769414

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Critical Perspectives on Gender Equality Policies and Practices for Staff in Higher Education by Sarah Barnard,Gail Crimmins Pdf

Author : Geeta Nair
Publisher : Springer
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137513649

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Gendered Impact of Globalization of Higher Education by Geeta Nair Pdf

This book explores the significant role education plays in the promotion of human development and gender equality in India, situating this progression in relation to developed nations, the other BRIC countries and the ongoing attainment of the Millennium Development Goals.

Author : Stephen Whitehead,Pat O'Connor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000770995

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Creating a Totally Inclusive University by Stephen Whitehead,Pat O'Connor Pdf

This book introduces the concept and practices of Total Inclusivity to universities around the world. It is written to help universities contend with increasing public scrutiny and uncertainty around issues of diversity, equity, inclusion and justice now at the forefront of global higher education. Providing a guide and template to higher education leaders, the book addresses such issues as work culture, free speech, student wellbeing, racism, LGBT+ identities, managerialism or ‘simply’ the ability of the institution to survive post-Covid. Whitehead and O’Connor argue that handling these issues can best be done in a university climate and system which is Totally Inclusive. This is the standard for any higher education institution to aim for, not only in its teaching but in its fundamental principles and everyday practices if it is to meet its obligations to its members and to wider society. The book aims to support universities as well as challenge the status quo as they grapple with the different global and societal pressures confronting them. It is an essential read for anyone working in leadership in higher education institutions and those interested in creating inclusive practices within their institution.

Author : Mary-Louise Kearney
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cross-cultural studies
ISBN : 1571812474

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Women, Power, and the Academy by Mary-Louise Kearney Pdf

Many nations affirm the principle of gender equality. As women continue to advance in most walks of life, the impression that equality has been reached and that gender issues no longer pose real problems has naturally gained ground. Yet, many cultural, economic, and social barriers remain. Although as many women as men possess the skills necessary to shape social and economic development, women are still prevented from fully participating in decision-making processes. The papers collected in this volume focus on universities as one of the key institutions providing women with the education and leadership skills necessary for their advancement. Equally important is the role universities play in the shaping of a society's cultural fabric and, consequently, of attitudes towards women and their place in society. Both aspects are examined in this volume on the basis of a number of case studies carried out in western and non-western societies.

Author : Sarah Barnard
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031543654

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Women Doing Leadership in Higher Education by Sarah Barnard Pdf

Author : Kate White,Pat O'Connor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137566591

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Gendered Success in Higher Education by Kate White,Pat O'Connor Pdf

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.

Author : Christine Fontanini,K.M. Joshi,Saeed Paivandi
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781839098864

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International Perspectives on Gender and Higher Education by Christine Fontanini,K.M. Joshi,Saeed Paivandi Pdf

Despite improved access to higher education for women, the distribution of women and men varies considerably between fields of study. The chapters in this edited collection explore the participation status of women in higher education across the varying socio-economic and sociological backgrounds observed in different countries and regions.

Author : Sarrico, Cláudia S.,Rosa, Maria J.,Carvalho, Teresa
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781839102639

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Research Handbook on Academic Careers and Managing Academics by Sarrico, Cláudia S.,Rosa, Maria J.,Carvalho, Teresa Pdf

This timely Research Handbook provides a broad analysis and discussion on how academics are managed. It addresses key issues, including the changing nature of academic work and academic labour markets, issues of power, leadership, ageing, human resource management practices, and mobility.

Author : Deane E. Neubauer,Surinderpal Kaur
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030027957

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Gender and the Changing Face of Higher Education in Asia Pacific by Deane E. Neubauer,Surinderpal Kaur Pdf

This book establishes gender issues as a major focus within developments shaping higher education in the Asia Pacific region. The discussion is framed as a response to various dedicated efforts, such as that of the United Nations, to foreground gender as a site for political discourse throughout the region. Throughout the volume, authors confront issues that continue to gain prominence in higher education as a policy arena, including the degree to which higher education operates within a framework of gender equity and how higher education appointments—even promotions—are sensitive to gender. By touching specific instances throughout Korea, Japan, China, Australia, India, Malaysia, Thailand, and Taiwan, authors offer an unprecedented big-picture view of gender-relevant policy issues.