Management and gender in higher education /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Connor, Pat, 1950- (Author)
Corporate Author: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women in higher education.
Sex discrimination in education.
Educational leadership.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Discrimination sexuelle en education > Irlande.
Leadership en education > Irlande.
Femmes dans l'enseignement superieur > Irlande.
Sex discrimination in education > Ireland.
Educational leadership > Ireland.
Women in higher education > Ireland.
Ireland.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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