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There are very few women who hold senior management positions in universities worldwide. This volume, written entirely by women, examines the problem and suggests ways in which it might be remedied. It contextualizes the situation by discussing management styles, the ethics of leadership, and the influence of career trends outside academia; and then presents a series of fascinating case studies based on interviews with, and the experience of, senior academic women. Finally, it considers the benefits of support mechanisms such as networking, work-shadowing and equal opportunities policies, and what is being done in other countries to improve matters.
This book will appeal to all who wish to see women's talents used to their full capacity, and to those whose particular interests or activities lie in management and leadership, women's studies and career development. Women who want to get on in higher education will find it particularly stimulating.
List of contents
Foreword by Elaine El-Khawas
Part one: Context
Leadership, women and higher education
Women and the ethics of leadership
Outside academia
the changing job market and its influence
Part two: Case studies
Women and change in higher education
On becoming and being a manager
Black Afro-Caribbean women in higher education in the United Kingdom, from the 1950's to the 1990's
UK women at the very top
an American assessment
Part three: Implementing change
Through the glass ceiling
networking by women managers in higher education
Workshadowing
a positive management experience?
Equal opportunities policy
Reaching for equal opportunities
models from Australia and the USA
References
Index.
About the author
Heather Eggins is Director of the Society for Research into Higher Education and Fellow Commoner of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. She previously worked for the Council for National Academic Awards, following a career in university teaching at Warwick, Boulder, Colorado and Ulster. She has previously edited Restructuring Higher Education and co-edited Higher Education into the 1990s under this imprint and edited Arts Graduates, Their Skills and Their Employment (Falmer Press).
