Год выпуска: 2009 Автор: Dr. Anita Maurtin-Cairncross Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 256 ISBN: 9783838310473
Описание
The urgency to publish: Globally, universities are facing significant new challenges and opportunities in increasingly competitive contexts. The continuing under-representation of women in senior and management positions of academies is receiving renewed attention (Bagilhole, 2000; Henry, 1990; Park, 1996; Williams, 1990). Given that women form a significant proportion of staff complements, there is the recognition that neither the institutions, nor the countries in which they are located, can afford to ignore the representation of women in their institutions (Ramsay, 2001). Clearly, gender relations have shifted over the last few decades, and women are now employed in greater numbers and their voices more represented than in the history of patriarchal academia (Aisenberg & Harrington, 1988; Bagilhole, 2000; Cooper & Subotzky, 2001). Yet, there is a clear argument that women''s voices, particularly the voices of women outside of the dominant western,...
