Academic women
By: Ann Brooks.
Publisher: Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Buckingham [England]; Bristol, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Women college teachers -- Great Britain -- Cross-cultural studies.; Women college teachers -- New Zealand -- Cross-cultural studies.; Sex discrimination in higher education -- Great Britain -- Cross-cultural studies.; Sex discrimination in higher education -- New Zealand -- Cross-cultural studies.
Description: How and why have women academics experienced patterns of exclusion, segregation and discrimination in higher education? To what extent are academic relationships characterized by endemic sexism in defence of male privilege? What parallels are there in patterns of discrimination and disadvantage for academic women in different cultural contexts? Academic Women explores these questions and investigates the relationships between gender, power and the academy through an analysis of the position of academic women in higher education in the UK and New Zealand. It considers the gap between the models of equality and academic fairness which are said to characterize academic life and the sexist reality of the academy. Ann Brooks combines new and original data drawn from statistical evidence and from the results of questionnaires and interviews with British and New Zealand women academics; and this evidence is located within a wider framework of historical evidence on the position of academic women in both countries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [152]-166) and index.