Gendered Success in Higher Education Global Perspectives /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: White, Kate (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), O'Connor, Pat (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Θέματα: Business.; Management science.; Business and Management.; Business and Management, general.

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,...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. Introduction: the focus on success stories; Kate White
• Chapter 2. Gender equality as a core academic value: Undoing gender in a “non-traditional” Swedish University; Helen Peterson and Birgitta Jordansson
• Chapter 3. Feminist university management – precondition or indicator for success? An Austrian case study; Angela Wroblewski
• Chapter 4. Women Vice-Chancellors as change agents? An Australian case study; Kate White
• Chapter 5. Changing the gender profile of the professoriate: An Irish case study; Pat O’Connor
• Chapter 6. The exceptionalism of women rectors: a case study from Portugal; Teresa Carvalho and Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor
• Chapter 7. Negotiating space for women’s academic leadership within the Arab Gulf states; Linzi J Kemp, Christina Gitsaki and Wafa Zoghbor
• Chapter 8. The Athena SWAN Charter: promoting commitment to gender equality in Higher Education Institutions in the UK; Sarah Barnard
• Chapter 9. Making a difference: national and local initiatives for gender equity in New Zealand; Jenny Neale
• Chapter 10. Promoting gender transformation at a higher education institution in South Africa; Connie Zulu
• Chapter 11. Gendered Success and Strategies for Change in a Turkish University; Özlem Atay
• Chapter 12. Who promotes a gender agenda?: an Indian case study; Tanuja Argawala
• Chapter 13. Towards a new gender agenda and a model for change; Pat O’Connor. .