Globalization and Women in Academia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Globalization and Women in Academia write by Carmen Luke. This book was released on 2001-06-01. Globalization and Women in Academia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this cross-cultural exploration of the comparative experiences of Asian and Western women in higher education management, leading feminist theorist Carmen Luke constructs a provocative framework that situates her own standpoint and experiences alongside those of Asian women she studied over a three-year period. She conveys some of the complexity of global sweeps and trends in education and feminist discourse as they intersect with local cultural variations but also dovetail into patterns of regional similarities. Western feminist research has established that relatively few women hold senior positions in universities and colleges. Using the now common metaphor of the "glass ceiling," this research has developed a range of social, cultural, and institutional explanations for women's underrepresentation in academic life. International studies show that women in non-Western countries are also underrepresented in higher education. Yet do Western explanations and strategies for change hold for academic women working in non-Western universities? The very diversity among women's experiences calls into question many of the analytic tools, terms, claims, and solutions formulated by Western feminism. This is the first study to show how cultural differences figure into the institutional dynamics of "glass ceilings." It raises important theoretical and practical, strategic, and tactical questions about issues of cultural difference and institutional power.
Globalization and Women in Academia
Globalization and Women in Academia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Globalization and Women in Academia write by Carmen Luke. This book was released on 2001-06. Globalization and Women in Academia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A cross-cultural exploration of globalization and women in higher education. Compares experiences of Western and Asian women within a framework that raises important questions about cultural difference and institutional power.
The Changing Role of Women in Higher Education
The Changing Role of Women in Higher Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Changing Role of Women in Higher Education write by Heather Eggins. This book was released on 2016-10-11. The Changing Role of Women in Higher Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book sets out to examine the changing role of women in higher education with an emphasis on academic and leadership issues. The scope of the book is international, with a wide range of contributors, whose expertise spans sociology, social science, economics, politics, public policy and linguistic studies, all of whom have a major interest in global education. The volume examines the ways in which the leadership role and academic roles of women in higher education are changing in the twenty first century, offering an up-to-date policy discussion of this area. It is in some sense a sequel to the earlier volume by the same Editor, Women as Leaders and Managers in Higher Education, but with very different emphases. The pressures now are to respond to the demands of the technological age and to those of the global economy. Today there are more highly qualified and experienced female academics, and more expectation of their gaining the highest posts. Challenges still remain, particularly in terms of the top posts, and in equal pay. The discussion of global policy issues affecting the role of women in higher education is combined with country case studies, several of which are comparative. Together they examine and unpack the particular situations of women in a wide range of higher education systems, from Brazil to the US to Europe to Africa and the Far East, noting the shift towards more flexibility, more personal choice and a greater acceptance by society of their abilities. This volume is a useful and influential addition to published work in this area, and is aimed at the intelligent general reader as well as the scholar interested in this topic.
Women in Global Science
Women in Global Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in Global Science write by Kathrin Zippel. This book was released on 2017-03-21. Women in Global Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scientific and engineering research is increasingly global, and international collaboration can be essential to academic success. Yet even as administrators and policymakers extol the benefits of global science, few recognize the diversity of international research collaborations and their participants, or take gendered inequalities into account. Women in Global Science is the first book to consider systematically the challenges and opportunities that the globalization of scientific work brings to U.S. academics, especially for women faculty. Kathrin Zippel looks to the STEM fields as a case study, where gendered cultures and structures in academia have contributed to an underrepresentation of women. While some have approached underrepresentation as a national concern with a national solution, Zippel highlights how gender relations are reconfigured in global academia. For U.S. women in particular, international collaboration offers opportunities to step outside of exclusionary networks at home. International collaboration is not the panacea to gendered inequalities in academia, but, as Zippel argues, international considerations can be key to ending the steady attrition of women in STEM fields and developing a more inclusive academic world.
Gender and the Restructured University
Gender and the Restructured University - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and the Restructured University write by Ann Brooks. This book was released on 2001. Gender and the Restructured University available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In these nine chapters, fourteen academics from the UK, Australia and New Zealand examine some recently accelerating changes in higher education, and the possible implications for female academics. They analyze the globalization process, the global knowledge economy, the influences of new technologies, new managerial styles and organizational structures and cultures accompanying the new dominant economic theories, and a shift in the focus of universities from traditional concerns of liberal education to "national wealth creation". The authors consider the effects of this corporate-, competition-dominated orientation on female academics, and the threats which organizational restructuring may pose to gender equity among academics.
