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An Academic 'Glass Cliff'? Exploring the Increase of Women in Swedish Higher Education Management
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Peterson, Helen – Athens Journal of Education, 2014
Sweden has the highest percentage of female university Vice Chancellors in Europe. Some of the factors that have promoted women's representation in senior management in Swedish academia are: political pressure in the form of goals and policies, quantitative target agreements concerning women's representation, top level commitment to gender…
Descriptors: College Administration, Women Administrators, Faculty Workload, Females