Narrating experiences of sexism in higher education: a critical feminist autoethnography to make meaning of the past, challenge the status quo and consider the future

Title
Narrating experiences of sexism in higher education: a critical feminist autoethnography to make meaning of the past, challenge the status quo and consider the future
Publication Date
2017
Author(s)
Edwards, Jane
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2705-8478
Email: jedwar51@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jedwar51
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1080/09518398.2017.1286405
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/27658
Abstract
Increasingly, the third-level sector across the world has acknowledged a hopeless track record of promoting and retaining competent women in leadership roles. However, change, in terms of women’s contribution and participation, has been minimal at least, or gradual at the most optimistic. In this paper, a woman with more than two decades experience as a full-time academic in the field of higher education relates her sense of loss and purposelessness when attempts to reach for a higher level position were consistently unsuccessful. Using autoethnography she relates her experiences of sexism in higher education, and the ways in which sexism turns into oppression through silencing. She proposes how her experiences point to the need for change, and she indicates that training to reduce gender bias has been proven to improve feelings of workplace fit for participants who collaborate with people who have addressed their gender bias.
Link
Citation
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 30(7), p. 621-634
ISSN
1366-5898
0951-8398
Start page
621
End page
634

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