... for it to roll back down), Hestia (the Greek Goddess of the hearth) and Tyche (the Greek Goddess of luck and change). Our empirical study contributes to understanding how individual women management scholars experience and cope with the UK’s research impact policy agenda in the neoliberal university. Research...

...Maggie Ross; Sophie Briere Purpose Our research aims to answer the following question: How does religious diversity manifest itself in Quebec universities through individuals' expressions of belief, interpersonal behaviors and organizational practices as part of a learning and co-construction...

...Maria Michali; Federica Angeli; Giovanni Oscar Serafini; George Eleftherakis Purpose This article explores the effectiveness of university gender equality policies, focusing on gender equality plans (GEPs) in Balkan academia. Design/methodology/approach The study conceptualizes GEPs as complex...

...-Racism Intersectionality Critical race theory Critical realism Feminism Race White supremacy Racism Sexism Universities Whisper networks Women of colour In UK academia, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) women are not only subject to discrimination and unequal treatment...

...Mohamed Mousa; Hala Abdelmoneim Abdallah Abdelgaffar Purpose To understand the position of female academics in public universities in Egypt, the authors of this paper aim to answer the question of what comes between victims breaking their silence about workplace sexual harassment (WSH). Design...

...Sandra Groeneveld; Kea Tijdens; Daphne van Kleef Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine gender differences in promotion probabilities of the academic staff of a large university in The Netherlands, taking into account the sex segregated context of the faculty. Design/methodology...

... be utilized to enhance gender diversity. Katie R. Sullivan can be contacted at: kate.sullivan.rose@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 United States of America Universities Mechanical engineering Students Gender Higher education Communication skills Sciences All...

...Olivia Kyriakidou; Pat O'Connor Purpose – This paper aims to provide a quantitative picture of the extent to which Irish universities are male-dominated at senior management, professoriate and governance levels; to locate this pattern in an international context; and, drawing on qualitative data...

...Sylvia Määttä; Elisabeth Dahlborg Lyckhage Purpose The aim of this paper is to describe senior lecturers' experiences of and reflections on the influence of gender on their work and career possibilities. Design/methodology/approach Eight informants, four female and four male university...

... universities that comprise the University of Alabama System, as well as others in the state. Research limitations/implications The present review does not contend that historic and fundamental inequities no longer exist in business and society. Moreover, the authors recognize that present inequities...

... there was approximately a 3 percent increase in the total number of MS degrees produced by US MSE programs. Public universities varied, but ended the decade essentially unchanged, whereas private universities had increased in output by 12 percent. Table III and Figure 3 shows that while there was a slight decline...

... makers can collaborate to move policy agendas forward. Mary Gatta can be contacted at: gatta@rci.rutgers.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Partnership Universities Public sector organizations Social policy Reference Braskamp , L. and Wergin , J...

...Ellen Kuhlmann; Ivy Lynn Bourgeault; Kevin T. Leicht; Mary L. Fennell Purpose The paper aims to argue that US colleges and universities resemble a “leaning tower” with ever expanding layers of administrators and managers who control and dominate university life. This set of institutional changes...

... networks, gender awareness training for managers, mentoring and building networks. Originality/value The paper provides new empirical data on gender equity and research in one UK university and critically analyses the gap between theory on gender equity and practice of manager‐academics. It provides...

... a complementary perspective. Design/methodology/approach Semi‐structured extended interviews were carried out with 16 women managers of academic or “support” departments in eight UK post‐1992 universities, about their working practices and how they sought to integrate work with other parts of their lives...

...Birgit blättel‐Mink States that the participation of men and women in the German academic and scientific system is unequally distributed. Shows that the higher the status at the university, the lower the female proportion and that women also choose different subjects to men. Asks why more men...

... Discrimination and Reverse Discrimination: Hong Kong University Students Experiences and Perceptions by Catherine W. Ng Catherine W. Ng is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Introduction Feminism has been defined...

... 2000 Discrimination Universities Sex discrimination Age discrimination Race Equal Opportunities International NEW DEVELOPMENTS CONCERNING DISCRIMINATION IN ACADEMIA by Travis Do and Brian H. Kleiner As you can see in the news and read in the newspaper, there is much discrimination...