Degendering Leadership in Higher Education.

Intro -- Degendering Leadership in Higher Education -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1: Introduction -- Theorizing Leadership Variation -- Study Design -- Leadership Styles and Gender -- 2: Effective Academic Leadership -- Exceptional Academic Credentials -- Leading with a Strong Ego, Not a Big Ego -- Caring for the Institution -- Hail to the Position -- Personnel Issues -- Valuing Diversity of Opinions -- Teamwork -- 3: Learning how to be an Academic Leader -- Early Pathway to Academic Leadership and Mentors -- Undergraduate and Graduate School Experience -- Faculty/Administrator Experience -- Learning from Successes and Mistakes of Others and Self -- Learning from Others' Leadership Style -- The Non-role Model: Learning from Mistakes -- "You Have to Eat the Noodles": Muddling through and Learning on-the-job -- Predecessors -- Listening and Learning to Lead -- Formal Leadership Training -- Benefits of Formal Leadership Training -- Training for Women: Gender-Specific Leadership Training -- 4: Gender and Leadership in Higher Education -- Socially Constructed Gendered Leadership Gender Roles -- The Work and Family Balance -- Gender and Power -- Questioning of Authority -- "Power Trips" -- Workplace Harassment -- Gendered Advantages: Is the Glass Ceiling Broken? -- 5: Conclusion, Implications, and Suggestions -- Suggestions for Future Research -- Conclusion -- Interview Guide -- Section 1: Background Information -- Section 2: Defining Leadership -- Section 3: Leadership Skills -- Section 4: Leadership Challenges -- Section 5: Conclusion -- References -- Index.

Through 34 interviews with women and men serving as presidents, deans, and provosts at some of the United States' top colleges and universities, this book explores what degendered leadership looks like in an academic setting and creates a path for inspired, talented, and qualified leadership that is not reduced to gender norms and stereotypes.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.