Women, Decision Making and Academia: An Unholy Alliance

Abstract

Considers the role of women within academia and outlines their experience of decision making within this context. Outlines the significant results of a study on female academics within one institute of higher education. In particular, women are found to experience an exclusion from informal networks and a consequent lack of access to real‐time information via the grapevine. They also perceive themselves to have less influence on organizational decision making than their male counterparts and suffer from a greater feeling of intimidation of authority, finding it difficult to make themselves heard in decision‐making meetings.

Citation

Handley, J. (1994), "Women, Decision Making and Academia: An Unholy Alliance", Women in Management Review, Vol. 9 No. 3, pp. 11-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/09649429410056290