Women, know your limits: cultural sexism in academia

Why are there so few female leaders in higher education

“…Savigny (2014) calculates that at the current growth rate of 0.75 per cent per annum it will take over 100 years for women to achieve equal numbers in the UK professoriate. At executive management level, there has only been a 0.4 per cent annual increase in the proportion of female PVCs in English pre-1992universities between 2005(Shepherd, 2015b.…”

pursuing the diversity and inclusion agenda: the PSA in the UK

“…This links to a wider literature on the gendered nature of HE (e.g. Knights & Richards, 2003;Acker, 1990Acker, , 2006Benschop & Brouns, 2003;Van den Brink & Benschop, 2012) where 'hegemonic masculinities' may be structurally and culturally reinforced (Pacholok, 2009, Bird, 2011Savigny, 2014). While much of this literature focuses on women, as Sara Ahmed (2012) observes there is very little recognition of the intersectional experiences within the academy, and this work has not been done within political science.…”

Impact of Undergraduate Language and Gender Research: Challenges and Reflections in the Context of Qatar

“…This behaviour can be linguistic, social or cultural (cf. Savigny 2014). From a Western perspective, meaning here from the point of view of Westerners and/or Arabs, who have been educated, lived and worked in the West for a long time, sexism is admittedly very evident in the Arab world either as "misogyny" (e.g.…”