Career Moves

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction

   • Shirley Randell

   Pages 1-7

3. Strategies for Maintaining Sanity and Success

   • Heather Wyatt-Nichol

   Pages 9-16

4. “Your’e on the Cusp, but not There Yet”

   • Wendy Sutherland-Smith

   Pages 17-33

5. Discrimination in the University in India

   • Samata B. Deshmane

   Pages 35-46

6. A new Black Girls’ Club: Mentoring Doctoral and ABD Candidates in Academia

   • A. Myrna Nurse

   Pages 47-59

7. The Value and Role of Mentoring and Role Models in Attracting and Retaining Junior Women Faculty in Academic Medicine

   • Margaret Steele, Sandra Fisman

   Pages 61-70

8. Avoiding Mid-Career Stalling

   • Athena Vongalis-Macrow

   Pages 71-82

9. Advancing Women Through Collaborative Networking

   • Betsy Brown, Laura Severin

   Pages 83-94

10. Preparing for an Academic Deanship

    • Sandra Cassady

    Pages 95-107

11. Preparing Women to be President

    • Carolyn J. Stefanco

    Pages 109-119

Mentoring and career guidance are the missing ingredients in women’s career planning at the higher education level. Career Moves recognizes and gives voice to some of the common career concerns of women in higher education and responds to these through well informed, researched and experiential chapters focussing on interests specific to women in academia. Career Moves draws on the substantial knowledge, experience and information of successful women currently working in higher education. Each chapter presents strategic information for academics working in higher education who may be seeking insider’s advice about negotiating their careers. The authors, as ‘mentors’, reflect, discuss and offer critical learning to the readers. The aim is to help guide and shape women’s career moves in higher education. In this international edition authors have given personal accounts of what works and how women could prepare for the next stages of their academic careers. Authors have given sociological accounts of obstacles and how these can impede women if they are not aware of strategies to overcome barriers. Insights about successful mentoring programs are highlighted to provide possible models for organizations. Career Moves is an international collection of book chapters that explore a range of specific issues that all women in higher education face or will face as they move up the career ladder.

• Higher education
• mentoring
• professional education
• women

• Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia

  Athena Vongalis-Macrow

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