Negotiating the Glass Ceiling: Careers of Senior Women in the Academic World

by Diana Woodward

Book Overview

Why is it that in many universities the number of women professors can literally be counted on the fingers of one hand while the number of men number in the hundreds? Why are women academics so relatively disadvantaged and men so firmly in control?
In an attempt to find answers to these questions Negotiating the Glass Ceiling gathers together the unique personal reflections of 16 eminent women working in higher education across the world. These...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750708387
• ISBN13: 9780750708388
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"