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Women Professors: Who Makes It and How?

Autor Carmel Diezmann, Susan Grieshaber
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 feb 2019
This book explores the career paths of Australian women who have succeeded in achieving professorships and beyond, where for the most part, such positions are predominately occupied by males. It also explores the gendered culture that exists across faculties and universities as reported by participants in a survey questionnaire of 525 new professors (female and male), and nearly 30 interviews of women in Australian higher education, either in small focus groups or individually. Futher, it identifies catalysts for and inhibitors of success for women and looks in depth at “the boys’ club” and how it impacts women’s progression. 

The book also highlights how critical life decisions — doctoral study, work and family — shape the careers of academic women. It identifies five distinct career profiles for women academics and the pressure points and effective support for each profile. Thus, this book can assist women academics who are making life decisions andthose supporting their career progression. It also provides insights into why affirmative action initiatives to improve the proportion of women in the professoriate have had minimal impact despite considerable investment over the past 30 years. 

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789811336836
ISBN-10: 9811336830
Pagini: 267
Ilustrații: XIX, 255 p. 37 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer Nature Singapore
Colecția Springer
Locul publicării:Singapore, Singapore

Cuprins

1 Women in the Professoriate.- 2 The Higher the Fewer.- 3 Climbing the Ladder.- 4 Research Context and Design.- 5 Research Kaleidoscope.- 6 Snakes and Ladders.- 7 The Boy' Club.- 8 Luck, the Double Edged Sword.- 9 Critical Events and Academic Women's Career Profiles.- 10 Navigating Rush Hours.

Notă biografică

Carmel Diezmann (PhD) is an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Education at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. She is interested in how individuals, groups and organisations build intellectual and professional capacities. Carmel’s research has included various aspects of university performance, including academic career performance, higher degree research students, university leadership, academic writing, research excellence, world rankings, and the relationship between university goals, strategies and achievements.

Sue Grieshaber (PhD) is Professor of Education and Director of Research at the School of Education at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She also holds appointments as Adjunct Professor at Monash University and Queensland University of Technology. Her research interests focus on social justice and equity and draw on a range of theoretical perspectives. Research projects in which she has been involved have investigated women in academia, families, and curriculum, policy, pedagogies, play, and technologies in pre-school and the early years of schooling contexts.

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This book explores the career paths of Australian women who have succeeded in achieving professorships and beyond, where for the most part, such positions are predominately occupied by males. It also explores the gendered culture that exists across faculties and universities as reported by participants in a survey questionnaire of 525 new professors (female and male), and nearly 30 interviews of women in Australian higher education, either in small focus groups or individually. Futher, it identifies catalysts for and inhibitors of success for women and looks in depth at “the boys’ club” and how it impacts women’s progression. 

The book also highlights how critical life decisions — doctoral study, work and family — shape the careers of academic women. It identifies five distinct career profiles for women academics and the pressure points and effective support for each profile. Thus, this book can assist women academics who are making life decisions andthose supporting their career progression. It also provides insights into why affirmative action initiatives to improve the proportion of women in the professoriate have had minimal impact despite considerable investment over the past 30 years. 


Caracteristici

Raises awareness of how study, work and family decisions influence the career progression of women who are early and mid-career academics Identifies catalysts for and inhibitors to success for women academics and how they impact career progression Looks in depth at “the boys’ club” and how it effects women’s academic careers Provides case studies of women professors who represent five distinct academic career profiles Suggests provisions that can be made to support the progression of women academics to the professoriate