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Intersectional barriers to women's advancement in higher education institutions rewarded for their gender equity plans1.91 MB
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Journal article
Intersectional barriers to women's advancement in higher education institutions rewarded for their gender equity plans
Gender and Education , Vol.35(6-7), pp.653-670
2023
Abstract
This paper reports on a research project designed to understand the work experiences and career opportunities of people working in higher education institutions (HEIs) across the UK, which received formal recognition for supporting gender equity between 2015 and 2020. The findings reveal multiple intersecting barriers to women’s full engagement, inclusion, support and career success in higher education, despite the implementation of organization-based gender equity plans, and institutional inter/national recognition for advancing equity. Most axes of de/privilege that are based along lines of gender, race, ethnicity and religion are enacted as everyday sexism that resist gender equality policy. Moreover, our findings suggest that ‘place’ is a constitutive element of intersectional dis/advantage, not merely a context within which compounded barriers to inclusion and advancement may exist. In addition, the findings demonstrate that whilst inter-categorical intersectionality is based on the notion that all social categories (such as age, race and gender) are equally salient, the degree of importance of any category will likely depend on location or context of the phenomena being examined. Our findings therefore invite further, iterative and translocational research into the impacts of the intersections of gender, ethnicity, race and religion in spaces of higher education, particularly those with colonial legacies and presence.
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- Title
- Intersectional barriers to women's advancement in higher education institutions rewarded for their gender equity plans
- Authors
- Gail Crimmins (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative IndustriesSarah Casey (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative IndustriesMaria Tsouroufli (Author) - Brunel University of London
- Publication details
- Gender and Education , Vol.35(6-7), pp.653-670
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2023
- DOI
- 10.1080/09540253.2023.2238737
- ISSN
- 1360-0516; 0954-0253
- Copyright note
- © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99742097602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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