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Hyper-Modernisation and Archaism: Women in Higher Education Internationally

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The academy today is characterised by the hyper-modernisation of global, entrepreneurial, commercialised universities underpinned by the archaism of poor quality employment environments, elitist participation and widespread gender inequalities. Counter hegemonic advocates did not predict the scale of neo-liberal driven change. Traditionalists did not foresee the industrialisation of higher education. Change has not always been driven by academic imaginaries. One change is the visibility of women as students, or consumers of higher education, set against their partial visibility as leaders and knowledge producers. The recognition/misrecognition confuses and confounds gender debates. Women have been allowed in, embassy style but benchmarked in relation to male norms, entering a matrix of declared and hidden rules (Lynch 2009). Women are simultaneously constructed as winners and losers. Winners because female students are gaining access, but losers because of lack of entitlement to leadership and prestigious disciplines. In this chapter, I will discuss these topics in a global context.

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Morley, L. (2010). Hyper-Modernisation and Archaism: Women in Higher Education Internationally. In: Riegraf, B., Aulenbacher, B., Kirsch-Auwärter, E., Müller, U. (eds) GenderChange in Academia. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92501-1_3

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