The Positioning and Making of Female Professors: Pushing Career Advancement Open (Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education)

This book explores the experiences and perspectives of female professors. Analysing the gendering of this process using various theoretical perspectives, this edited collection examines the active ‘making’ of careers, and how this has been possible. The editors and contributors cut across institutions, cultures and continents to seek to understand how women navigate the gendered process of becoming a professor, with each chapter applying a different theoretical or methodological approach to her experience. The chapters are not mere descriptions of career trajectories, but analytic narratives anchored within distinct theoretical and philosophical frameworks. In turn, they shed important light on how – and if – institutional structures and systems are adapting to move towards gender equality. Offering practical advice as well as thoughtful reflection, this book will be of especial interest to early career female academics. 

Rowena Murray is Professor and Director of Research in the School of Education at the University of the West of Scotland, UK. 

Denise Mifsud is an Associate Fellow of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre of Educational Research, Malta and part-time lecturer at the University of Malta.