Gender, Power and Higher Education in a Globalised World
"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 c...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021. |
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Table of Contents:
- Section 1: Context
- 1. Introduction and Methodology; Pat O'Connor and Kate White
- Section 2: Exploring Gender and Power in Higher Education
- 2. Resistance to Gender Equality Efforts: Experiences from EU-projects aiming to implement Gender Equality Plans; Helen Peterson, Teresa Carvalho, Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor
- 3. Gender (in)competent Leadership and the Sex Quota; Anke Lipinsky & Angela Wroblewski
- 4. Between a Rock and a Hard Place? Excellence as a Legitimating 'Gender-Neutral' Logic and Micropolitical Practices as the Day-to Day Reality; Pat O'Connor and Sarah Barnard
- 5. Making the Right Choice: A Three-Country Study of Gendered Effects of Individualizing Neoliberal Discourses in Higher Education; Marcela Linkova, Ozlem Atay and Connie Zulu
- 6. Displacement and/or Appropriation/Emasculation of Gender Equality; Kate White and Bridgitte Bonisch-Brednich
- 7. Slow Progress towards Gender Equality in Policy and Practice: Case Studies of Higher Education Institutions in South Asia and the Middle East Regions; Linzi Kemp and Tanuja Agarwala
- 8. 'As Sociologists We Should Know Better': Gender, Power and Harassment in Higher Education Professional Associations; Kathrin Zippel Section 3: Moving Forward
- 9. Gender and Power: Where to Now?; Pat O'Connor and Kate White.