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CohenMiller, Anna S.; Demers, Denise; Schnackenberg, Heidi; Izekenova, Zhanna – Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 2022
This international study examined how to support equity and inclusion for 18 mothers in academia ("motherscholars"). Applying Acker's theory of gendered organizations as a framework for the study, we recruited participants from Facebook groups for women and mothers in higher education across disciplines and nine countries. To attend to…
Descriptors: Mothers, Inclusion, Higher Education, Gender Issues
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Morley, Louise – Gender and Education, 2013
This paper engages with Diana Leonard's writing on how gender is constituted in the academy. It offers an international review of feminist knowledge on how gender and power interact with leadership in higher education. It interrogates the "leaderist turn" or how leadership has developed into a popular descriptor and a dominant social and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Leadership, Females, Feminism
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Miller, David I.; Eagly, Alice H.; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
In the past 40 years, the proportion of women in science courses and careers has dramatically increased in some nations but not in others. Our research investigated how national differences in women's science participation related to gender-science stereotypes that associate science with men more than women. Data from ~350,000 participants in 66…
Descriptors: Females, Science Education, Scientists, Career Choice
Ramdas, Lalita – Asian-South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education, 2004
The 40th Anniversary Celebrations of the Asian-South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education (ASPBAE) is an opportune moment to document the journey it has travelled over the last forty years. This book is an account of how women leaders came to be a significant part of the governance of ASPBAE and gender a central perspective underpinning both its…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Mainstreaming, Females, Foreign Countries