Travelling Towards a Mirage? Gender, Leadership and Higher Education [electronic resource].
Travelling Towards a Mirage? Gender, Leadership and Higher Education [electronic resource].
Travelling Towards a Mirage? Gender, Leadership and Higher Education [electronic resource].
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Maleny : eContent Management Pty Ltd, 2010.
Date
2010.
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English
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1 online resource (172 p.)
Contents
Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Chapter One - Introduction; Enduring myths; Tangled web; Sites of struggle and compromise; Structure of book; Chapter Two - Mapping the terrain: Gender, leadership and higher education; Challenges or opportunity?; Everyone and no one's responsibility; Dangerous t...
Figuring out inequity: Horizontal divisions within academiaFiguring out inequity: Vertical stratification in the sector; Cinderellas at the ball: Are women managing and men researching?; How are women faring in research-intensive universities?; The trouble with figures ...; Universities as patriarch...
Exploding the myths of the patriarchal AcademyMyth One: Casualisation; Myth Two: Promotion discrimination (direct/indirect); Myth Three: Workloads and productivity; Women as carers: The great divide; Conclusion; Chapter Four - Charting the territory; Numerical mirages; Trans-Tasman neighbours: Austr...
Gender equity policies as transformationThe myth of advantage; Equal Employment Opportunity policy as legislative and symbolic adherence: So what's in a name?; Equal Employment Opportunity as organisational adherence: Whose responsibility is it anyway?; Defining 'women': Equal Employment Opportunity...
The gender agendaThe silence of numbers; Policy contradictions; Conclusion; References; Index.
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Maleny : eContent Management Pty Ltd, 2010.
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2010.
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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.
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In this book the authors use the metaphor of a mirage to map the current climate in higher education and examine whether equity and equality policies and practices have had an impact on the participation of women as leaders and managers in higher education. The authors offer a comparative approach to examining and understanding how gender and leade...
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Travelling Towards a Mirage? Gender, Leadership and Higher Education [electronic resource].
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ISBN
9781921214769
DDC
378.12082
MMS ID
991016797229702626
