Abstract
This paper explores the material impact of major transformations in the Australian academic field upon a group of ethnically and socioeconomically diverse academic women leaders1 who, because of their varying degrees of seniority, were positioned as key ’change agen(ts)’ in their diverse locales (Yeatman 1995: 203). It examines two key questions. Firstly, despite long term policies of equity and diversity, how are such women leaders positioned in a field in which to be an academic leader/manager still requires that one both ’masculinises and whitens’? (Williams 1991 cited in Reay 2004: 31). Secondly, given the small amount of research upon such women and the largely unexamined assumption underpinning educational studies which posits white and middle-class as the naturalized subject location of leadership (Fitzgerald 2003, Wilkinson 2005), what learnings can we draw from these women’s experiences in relation to gender equality programmes in universities?
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Gender Equality Programmes in Higher Education |
Subtitle of host publication | International Perspectives |
Editors | Sabine Grenz, Beate Kortendiek, Marianne Kriszio, Andrea Löther |
Place of Publication | Wiesbaden Germany |
Publisher | VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften |
Pages | 101-118 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Edition | 1st |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783531912189 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783531161419 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Externally published | Yes |