Academic Careers and Gender

Maddie  Breeze; Yvette Taylor

doi:10.4135/9781071926697.n7

Academic Careers and Gender

Maddie Breeze, Yvette Taylor

Strathclyde Institute Of Education

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Abstract

Gender and intersecting social inequalities shape university entrance, degree completion, and the possibility of imagining ourselves as intellectual workers, ultimately contouring our academic careers. Drawing from interdisciplinary feminist scholarship, this entry offers an overview of the relationship between gender and academic careers, including gendered intersectional inequalities in accessing and progressing in academia, analyses of collaboration as a feminist strategy for negotiating the career course, a focus on women in leadership and the possibilities and limits of feminist leadership, and privilege and precarity in higher education.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Sage Encyclopedia of Education and Gender
Editors	Elizabeth E. Blair, Sherry L. Deckman
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071926697.n7
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2025

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 5 Gender Equality
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

Keywords

Career
Academia
Gender

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Academic Careers and Gender

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Athena’s Threshold: An EDI Doorway to Participation and Change

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Feminist Repetitions in Higher Education: Interrupting Career Categories

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