Generation and gender in academia

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Generation and gender in academia

edited by Barbara Bagilhole and Kate White

Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The first cross-cultural analysis of the differences in career trajectories and experiences between a senior group of women academics and a younger group who are at early and mid-career stages. Major themes in the autobiographical stories of these women were national context; organisational context; family, class and location; and agency.

Table of Contents

  • PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. The Context
  • Barbara Bagilhole and Kate White PART II: REFLECTIONS OF WOMEN IN ACADEMIA 2. A Standard Academic Career?
  • Pat O'Connor 3. Shaping an Academic Belonging: The Interloper Syndrome by Gender and Class
  • Barbara Bagilhole 4. A Mature Age Student
  • Jenny Neale 5. A Non-typical Academic Career
  • Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor 6. An Outsider in Academia
  • Kate White PART III: THE NEXT GENERATION 7. Careers of Early and Mid-career Academics
  • Teresa Carvalho, Ozlem Ozkanl?, Heidi Prozesky and Helen Peterson PART IV: EXPLORING GENERATIONAL CHANGE 8. Continuity and Change in Academic Careers
  • Kate White and Barbara Bagilhole

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