Negotiating the Glass Ceiling

Careers of Senior Women in the Academic World
Herausgeber: David, Miriam; Woodward, Diana; David, Miriam

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text reviews and explains the professional and personal experiences of women in mangement positions in higher education. Universities and Colleges of Higher Education are believed to promote equality of opportunity; this book reveals some of the pitfalls in the system, and the policy practices which still create barriers for women.

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Why is it that in many universities the number of women professors can literally be counted on the fingers of one hand while the number of men number in the hundreds? Why are women academics so relatively disadvantaged and men so firmly in control? In an attempt to find answers to these questions Negotiating the Glass Ceiling gathers together the unique personal reflections of 16 eminent women working in higher education across the world. These personal reflections document some of the changing patterns of women's lives in higher education since the war, a time of massive social change within education itself, as well as in women's lives outside higher education. They also illustrate that the changes that have occured have been hard won and not without consequences for the women involved.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 507g
• ISBN-13: 9780750708371
• ISBN-10: 0750708379
• Artikelnr.: 20976786

Autorenporträt

Dr Miriam David, Miriam David, Diana Woodward

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Miriam David and Diana Woodward Part One: International
Perspectives 2. Rewinding the Tape: Starting Anew Berit As 3. The Struggle
for Balance: The Career of a German University Professor Gertud Pfister 4.
Against the Tide: The Career Paths of Women Chief Academic Officers of
American Colleges and Universities Karen Doyle Walton 5. A Malady of
Leisure and Travel: The Autobiography of a Scholar Chryssi Inglessi Part
Two: Reflections on Past Careers 6. A Lifetime of Learning Dorothy
Wedderburn 7. A Flying Start Meg Stacey 8. An Accidental Academic Hilary
Rose 9. An 'Interesting' Career in Higher Education Dulcie Groves 10. Luck,
Hard Work and An Unplanned Career Angela Crum Ewing 11. The Road Not Taken
Mavis Ainsworth Part Three: Reflections on Current Careers 12. Health and
Efficiency Elaine Thomas 13. From Rags to Riches to Rags Again Dorothy
Severin 14. Always a Catholic? Guilt, Rebellion and 'Trying a Little Harder
For God' Eileen Green 15. The Accidental Manager Dianne Willcocks 16. 'You
Know Where You Are With Numbers Maggie Deacon 17.Women's Careers in
Education: Theoretical and Practical Considerations of How the Glass
Ceiling Might Be Cracked Myra McCulloch 18. Postscript Miriam David and
Diana Woodward