Editors:
- Provides a research-based assessment of the current state-of-the-art
- Offers an up-to-date policy discussion on gender inequality in academia
- Written by established leaders in the field
- Draws on and combines insights from a range of disciplines
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective (CHAC, volume 17)
Buy it now
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.
Table of contents (15 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Setting the Scene
-
Front Matter
-
-
Adjusting to Change
-
Front Matter
-
-
Gender Equality?
-
Front Matter
-
About this book
This book sets out to examine the changing role of women in higher education with an emphasis on academic and leadership issues. The scope of the book is international, with a wide range of contributors, whose expertise spans sociology, social science, economics, politics, public policy and linguistic studies, all of whom have a major interest in global education. The volume examines the ways in which the leadership role and academic roles of women in higher education are changing in the twenty first century, offering an up-to-date policy discussion of this area. It is in some sense a sequel to the earlier volume by the same Editor, Women as Leaders and Managers in Higher Education, but with very different emphases. The pressures now are to respond to the demands of the technological age and to those of the global economy. Today there are more highly qualified and experienced female academics, and more expectation of their gaining the highest posts. Challenges still remain, particularly in terms of the top posts, and in equal pay. The discussion of global policy issues affecting the role of women in higher education is combined with country case studies, several of which are comparative. Together they examine and unpack the particular situations of women in a wide range of higher education systems, from Brazil to the US to Europe to Africa and the Far East, noting the shift towards more flexibility, more personal choice and a greater acceptance by society of their abilities. This volume is a useful and influential addition to published work in this area, and is aimed at the intelligent general reader as well as the scholar interested in this topic.
Keywords
- Academic roles of women in Higher Education
- Diversifying leadership in academia
- Female academic work in Higher Education
- Gender inequality in Education
- Gendering research policy
- Glass ceiling effect for female academics
- Leadership roles of women in Higher Education
- Women as Leaders and Managers in Higher Education
Editors and Affiliations
-
University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
Heather Eggins
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Changing Role of Women in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: Academic and Leadership Issues
Editors: Heather Eggins
Series Title: The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42436-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42434-7Published: 19 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82580-9Published: 07 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42436-1Published: 11 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2214-5346
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0378
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 310
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Gender Studies