Women in Academic Leadership - Professional Strategies, Personal Choices

Klappentext Colleges and universities benefit from diversity in their leadership roles and profess to value diversityof thought, of experience, of person. Yet why do women remain under-represented in top academic leadership positions and in key positions along the academic career ladder? Zusammenfassung Provokes readers to think critically about the gendered nature of academic leadership across the spectrum of institutional types. This book argues that leadership! the academy! and the nexus of academic leadership! remain gendered structures steeped in male-oriented norms and mores.

Product details

• Authors: Diane R. (EDT)/ Bracken Dean
• Assisted by: Jeanie K Allen (Editor), Jeanie K. Allen (Editor), Susan J Bracken (Editor), Susan J. Bracken (Editor), Diane R Dean (Editor), Diane R. Dean (Editor)
• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2008
• EAN: 9781579221881
• ISBN: 978-1-57922-188-1
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Women in Academe; Women in Academe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system