Research related to the position, status and experience of women academics has
increasingly attracted the attention of scholars in recent decades. Despite the increase in the …

Drawing on international and national data, theory and research, Gender and the Changing
Face of Higher Education provides an accessible but nuanced discussion of …

New Public Management reforms have fostered universities to focus on performance and
competition which has resulted in different pressures to perform and disruption of strong …

This book opens the black box of professorial recruitments and selection practices in the
Netherlands, and unmasks some persistent myths to explain away the under-representation …

This article explores emerging themes from the literature on gender and higher education in
low-income Commonwealth countries. It attempts to engage with a range of unpublished or …

This whole reports on the experience of some women who work part-time as Associate
Lecturers (ALs) in Science or Technology at the UK Open University (OU), a unique higher …

This quantitative and qualitative study explores the leadership challenges for women
academics in the Hong Kong academy. It is informed by the theoretical lens of …

Joan Acker's theory on gendered organizations offers important tools for understanding
subtler forms of inequalities and gendered practices in the workplace. According to Acker …

This chapter will explore how different feminist theories and theorists have informed what
counts as research, what is defined as a research issue, and methodological approaches to …

Introduction. Funded under the Horizon 2020 programme, the CHANGE project–
Challenging Gender (In) Equality in Science and Research–aims to create and implement …