Gender and Higher Education Management in Times of Crisis

Sarah Barnard, Angela Wroblewski

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9783031989407
• eBook ISBN:
  9783031989414
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Management

This edited book explores the role of higher education management during crises and analyses the responses and gendered consequences for women in particular. Contributions adopt multidimensional, multilevel and intersectional approaches to gender inequalities to better understand power relations as expressed through institutional and cultural change processes. The chapters explore the ways in which crises play out and the extent to which they undermine, ratify or reconfigure gender relations in higher education. Contributing authors from different geographical locations also reflect on how higher education management conceives of gender when responding to crisis, as well as the consequences of a binary approach and related essentialism. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of higher education, gender studies and organisation and management studies, and higher education leadership and policy makers.

 

Table of contents

• Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
• Gender and Higher Education Management in Times of Crisis
• Preface
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• 1. Setting the Scene: Gender and Higher Education Management in Times of Crisis
• 2. “Through Change and Through Storm, Better and Stronger”: Gendered Crisis Management Discourses in Swedish Academia
• 3. The “Slow” Career Crisis for Women in Australian Regional Universities: Place, Travel, and Agency
• 4. Career Shock or Business as Usual? Women Academics’ Experiences of a Global Health Crisis and Why It Still Matters
• 5. Incorporating Gender into Institutional Crisis Response: The Case of Advance in 2020–2021
• 6. Intersections of Gender and Crisis: Feminist Critiques of Neoliberal Higher Education Management
• 7. Precarity in Higher Education? Strategies to Avoid Perceiving it as a Crisis
• 8. Racism and Sexism as a (Non-)Crisis in Higher Education
• 9. Ombuds on a Glass Cliff: Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Czech Higher Education
• 10. Numbers or Norms: What Predicts Gender-Based Violence in Higher Education?
• 11. Perceptions of Turkish Academic Women on the Glass Ceiling in Times of Crisis
• 12. University Campus Sustainability as a Response to Climate Crisis: Is There a Gender Dimension?
• 13. Differential Receptivity of Universities to Gender Equality and SDGs
• 14. Conclusion
• Index