This volume provides a critical examination of the status of women and gender in higher education today. Despite the increasing numbers of women in higher education, gendered structures continue to hinder womens advancement in academia. This book goes beyond the numbers to examine the issues facing those members of academia with non-dominant gender identities. The authors analyze higher education structures from a range of perspectives and offer recommendations at individual and institutional levels to encourage activism and advance equality in academia.
Introduction
PART I:Leaders and Organizations
Chapter 1. Problematizing Gender in Higher Education: Why Leaning In Isnt Enough
Chapter 2. Finding their Own Voice: Womens Leadership Rhetoric
Chapter 3. Conditions Enabling Womens Leadership in Community Colleges
Chapter 4. Higher Education Policy: Disrupting the Structures that Bind Us
PART II: Faculty and Staff
Chapter 5. Troubling Gender Norms and the Ideal Worker in Academic Life
Chapter 6. Part of the Discussion? Gendered Role of Support Staff in Higher Education
Chapter 7. Feminist Faculty: Striving to be Heard
Chapter 8. Gender Equity in Austrian Universities: Constructions of power, knowledge, and response-ability in the process of change
Chapter 9. The Generations of Women Faculty
PART III: Students