Globalisation and the restructuring of higher education for new knowledge economies: new dangers or old habits troubling gender equity work in universities?
Blackmore, Jill 2002, Globalisation and the restructuring of higher education for new knowledge economies: new dangers or old habits troubling gender equity work in universities?, Higher education quarterly, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 419-441, doi: 10.1111/1468-2273.00228.
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Globalisation and the restructuring of higher education for new knowledge economies: new dangers or old habits troubling gender equity work in universities?
This article undertakes a feminist critique of the restructuring of the modern university in Australia. It considers the interaction of the processes of globalisation, corporatisation (through the twin strategies of marketisation and managerialism) and the social relations of gender, and their implication for gender equity work in the academy. The paper locates the reform of Australian universities within their Western context, and considers the gendered effects of the new disciplinary technologies of quality assurance and online learning on the position of women academics. It concludes with some comments about the shift in language from equity to diversity which has accompanied corporatisation, and how this has effectively coopted women's intellectual labour to do the work of the entrepreneurial university.
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