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‘Wasting talent’? Gender and the problematics of academic disenchantment and disengagement with leadership

journal contribution
posted on 2014-01-01, 00:00 authored by Jillian BlackmoreJillian Blackmore
Confronted with the processes of massification, commercialisation, internationalisation and reduced funding, universities also face an ageing academic workforce, with implications of a shrinking pool from which to recruit managerial and research leaders. A feminist analysis suggests that the policy problematic has been wrongly conceptualised as disengagement with leadership due to the characteristics of the academic workforce. Instead, it is argued that the corporatisation of the academy has produced academic disenchantment due to managerial dominance, commercialisation and privatisation and disengagement with the dominant values, practices and images of university leadership. Furthermore, the intensification of academic labour and the lack of diversity in leadership discourage many women from aspiring to or achieving leadership.

History

Journal

Higher Education Research & Development

Volume

33

Issue

1

Pagination

86 - 99

Publisher

Routledge

Location

Oxford, UK

ISSN

0729-4360

eISSN

1469-8366

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

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2014, Taylor & Francis