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Gender, Power and Higher Education in a Globalised World

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education Book Series

Editors: O'Connor, Pat; White, Kate

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-69687-0

ISBN: 978-3-030-69686-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 25, 2021

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Chapter 1Gender Equality in Higher Education: The Slow Pace of Change

O’Connor, Pat; White, Kate

Pages: 1 –23

[This chapter introduces the topic of gender equality and inequality in higher education, using feminist institutionalism as the underlying theoretical perspective. Drawing on a range of methodologies and focusing on key topical themes it identifies the discourses which have inhibited change, as...
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Chapter 2Institutionalised Resistance to Gender Equality Initiatives in Swedish and Portuguese Academia

Peterson, Helen; Carvalho, Teresa; Jordansson, Birgitta; de Lourdes Machado-Taylor, Maria

Pages: 25 –46

[This chapter explores institutionalised resistance to gender equality initiatives reported by 15 gender equality change agents (GECAs) in Swedish and Portuguese Higher Education (HE). Drawing on qualitative interviews with the GECAs, the study highlights similarities within the two national HE...
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Chapter 3Problematising Excellence as a Legitimating Discourse

O’Connor, Pat; Barnard, Sarah

Pages: 47 –69

[Excellence is the legitimating discourse for the existence and perpetuation of gender inequality. This chapter uses a multi-method approach to problematise this legitimating construct of excellence in higher education institutions (HEIs). Through an analysis of policy documents in the UK HE...
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Chapter 4Making the Right Choice: Discourses of Individualised Responsibility in Higher Education

Linková, Marcela; Atay, Özlem; Zulu, Connie

Pages: 71 –91

[With choice conceptualised as performative, this chapter examines neoliberal discourses of individualised responsibility in research and higher education, and the ways in which choice is used to mask the existence of structural gender inequalities; as such it is a form of resistance to gender...
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Chapter 5Whatever Happened to Gender Equality in Australian and New Zealand Universities?

Bönisch-Brednich, Brigitte; White, Kate

Pages: 93 –115

[This chapter examines why progress towards getting more women into senior management has been slow in Australian and New Zealand public universities. It argues that despite implementation of gender-equality policies, the structural sources of gender equality have not been tackled. Most recently...
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Chapter 6Silencing Women’s Voices: An Ethnographic Perspective from India and the UAE

Gallant, Monica; Agarwala, Tanuja

Pages: 117 –138

[This chapter examines gender equality in higher educational institutions (HEIs) in India and the United Arab Emirates, countries that are patriarchal and conservative in terms of gender roles and gender inequality with low levels of senior women in higher education and few women professors. It...
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Chapter 7#MeToo in Professional Associations: Harassment, Gender, and Power

Zippel, Kathrin

Pages: 139 –161

[The #MeToo movement highlighted that sexual harassment continues to impede progress towards gender equity in institutions across society. In science and academia, professional associations are an often untapped—but potentially important—resource for addressing sexual harassment and gender...
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Chapter 8Re-visiting Gender Equality Policy and the Role of University Top Management

Lipinsky, Anke; Wroblewski, Angela

Pages: 163 –186

[How did gender mainstreaming and the introduction of sex quotas in management affect the gender equality project in higher education? After 20 years of establishing gender equality structures and monitoring the proportion of women in decision-making, persistent gender inequality in universities...
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Chapter 9Power, Legitimating Discourses and Institutional Resistance to Gender Equality in Higher Education

O’Connor, Pat; White, Kate

Pages: 187 –207

[This chapter underlines the importance of institutional resistance and legitimating discourses in understanding why the pace of change in gender equality in higher education has been so slow. Institutional resistance has been reflected in denial of the legitimacy of the gender change agenda and...

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