Generation and gender in academia / edited by Barbara Bagilhole and Kate White.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bagilhole, Barbara, 1951-2015.

White, Kate, 1949 August 3-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in higher education.

Women college teachers.

Career development.

Glass ceiling (Employment discrimination).

Physical Description:

ix, 203 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

"Generation and Gender in Academia is the first cross-cultural analysis of the differences in career trajectories and experiences between a senior and younger group of women academics. This volume uses individual autobiographies of women academics in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom, who are members of the international feminist research consortium--the Women in Higher Education Management (WHEM) Network. Four major themes in their stories are national context; organisational context; family, class and location; and agency. While the younger generation believe they are entitled to careers on the same terms as their male colleagues, major challenges remain. These include countering the argument that the battles have been won for younger academics; lack of support and mentoring at the outset of careers; the continuing difficulty of aspiring to a traditional academic career path; capacity for playing the 'game' in managerial universities; and recognising mobility as crucial to career success.

Contents:

The context / Barbara Bagilhole and Kate White

A standard academic career? / Pat O'Connor

Shaping an academic belonging : the interloper syndrome by gender and class / Barbara Bagilhole

A mature-age student / Jenny Neale

A non-typical academic career / Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor

An outsider in academia / Kate White

Careers of early- and mid-career academics / Teresa Carvalho, Özlem Özkanli, Heidi Prozesky and Helen Peterson

Continuity and change in academic careers / Kate White and Barbara Bagilhole.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1137269162

9781137269164

OCLC:

834978572