Women’s presence and visibility in management roles at universities
This paper explores the debate on women’s presence and visibility in management roles at universities, as well as the nature of power when exercised by those women. We discuss the results from research carried out through a descriptive inquiry into two state-funded Spanish universities. We developed...
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Arizona State University
2013-04-01
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| author | Marita Sanchez-Moreno Marina Tomás Folch José Manuel Lavié Martinez |
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| description | This paper explores the debate on women’s presence and visibility in management roles at universities, as well as the nature of power when exercised by those women. We discuss the results from research carried out through a descriptive inquiry into two state-funded Spanish universities. We developed our analyses through the information we collected by using three different data collection strategies: semi-structured interviews, analysis of institutional websites, and focus groups. Our results show that both visibility and the exercise of power are issues directly related to gender. There seems to prevail a certain degree of women’s invisibility in the two universities we studied. Sociocultural characteristics that have pervaded female academics’ lives, as well as the structural circumstances that are currently present in Spanish universities, are two of the main factors that may account for this invisibility. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dbb379de631e4ef9a651083a1b6ddd562022-12-22T01:44:54ZengArizona State UniversityEducation Policy Analysis Archives1068-23412013-04-0121010.14507/epaa.v21n32.20131118Women’s presence and visibility in management roles at universitiesMarita Sanchez-Moreno0Marina Tomás Folch1José Manuel Lavié Martinez2Universidad de SevillaUniversidad Autónoma de BarcelonaUniversidad de SevillaThis paper explores the debate on women’s presence and visibility in management roles at universities, as well as the nature of power when exercised by those women. We discuss the results from research carried out through a descriptive inquiry into two state-funded Spanish universities. We developed our analyses through the information we collected by using three different data collection strategies: semi-structured interviews, analysis of institutional websites, and focus groups. Our results show that both visibility and the exercise of power are issues directly related to gender. There seems to prevail a certain degree of women’s invisibility in the two universities we studied. Sociocultural characteristics that have pervaded female academics’ lives, as well as the structural circumstances that are currently present in Spanish universities, are two of the main factors that may account for this invisibility.https://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/1092universidadesEspañagénero |
| spellingShingle | Marita Sanchez-Moreno Marina Tomás Folch José Manuel Lavié Martinez Women’s presence and visibility in management roles at universities Education Policy Analysis Archives universidades España género |
| title | Women’s presence and visibility in management roles at universities |
| title_full | Women’s presence and visibility in management roles at universities |
| title_fullStr | Women’s presence and visibility in management roles at universities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Women’s presence and visibility in management roles at universities |
| title_short | Women’s presence and visibility in management roles at universities |
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| topic | universidades España género |
| url | https://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/1092 |
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