Colleges and universities benefit from diversity in their leadership roles and profess to value diversity--of thought, of experience, of person. Yet why do women remain under-represented in top academic leadership positions and in key positions along the academic career ladder?
Why don't they advance at a rate proportional to that of their male peers? How do internal and external environmental contexts still influence who enters academic leadership and who survives and thrives in those roles?
Women in Academic Leadership complements its companion volumes in the...
Colleges and universities benefit from diversity in their leadership roles and profess to value diversity--of thought, of experience, of person. Yet w...
* Reveals continuing barriers to success for women students * Offers remedies that will benefit all students
What are the realities behind recent press reports suggesting that women students have taken over higher education, both outnumbering males and academically outperforming them? Does women's development during college diverge from the commonly accepted model of cognitive growth? Does pedagogy in higher education take into account their different ways of knowing? Are there still barriers to women's educational achievement?
In answering these questions, this...
* Reveals continuing barriers to success for women students * Offers remedies that will benefit all students
