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Women's Work: Education-focused Academics in Higher Education

ISBN: 978-1-83982-229-2, eISBN: 978-1-83982-226-1

Publication date: 26 April 2021

Abstract

We are the midst of accelerated change in the academic workforce. Academic roles, being a resilient mixture of research and education, are differentiating. An education-focused academic role, rather than one solely focused on disciplinary research, is gaining credibility and value. With the rise of the education-focused academic roles, questions are being raised about whether this new form of education-focused academic will continue to be overly represented by women in a new form of “women's work.” In the next decade, as academic roles continue to differentiate, care needs to be taken not to repeat the practice of the last 100 years which has seen gender bias continue. We will present four profiles of education-focused women academics, the snakes and ladders in their careers, and the strategies needed to ensure that women progress with equal recognition in these complex but exciting times.

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Acknowledgments

Research Ethics was applied for using the National Ethics Application Form (NEAF) process (now replaced by the Human Research Ethics Application HREA) and assessed by Human Research Ethics Committee at Western Sydney University, approval number H11177. Thank you to Vicky Tzioumis and Giacomo Rotolo-Ross for editing drafts of this chapter and Philip Poronnik and Lucy Mercer-Mapstone for their insights.

Citation

Ross, P.M. (2021), "Women's Work: Education-focused Academics in Higher Education", Mahat, M. (Ed.) Women Thriving in Academia (Surviving and Thriving in Academia), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 109-128. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83982-226-120211007

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Emerald Publishing Limited