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Management and gender in higher education /

O'Connor provides a definitive examination of Irish higher education: exploring its nature and purpose, and locating it in the context of the state and the market. She presents new research on an elite group: senior managers in universities. They are relatively powerful in relation to their stu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Connor, Pat, 1950- (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.
Colección:Irish society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Management and gender in higher education; Contents; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; Prologue: my own journey; 1 The big picture: un iversities in a changing society; 2 Finding a compass and mapping the terrain; 3 Policy priorities: instrumentality, scientization, degendering; 4 Gentleman's club or medieval court?; 5 There is no problem; or, if there is, the problem is women; 6 'Think manager-think male'?; 7 An attractive job, but no place for a woman?; 8 Summary and conclusions; Appendix: socioe-conomic realities in contemporary Irish society; References; Index