Generation and Gender in Academia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Context

      • Barbara Bagilhole, Kate White

      Pages 3-20

3. Reflections of Women in Academia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. A Standard Academic Career?

      • Pat O’Connor

      Pages 23-45

   3. Shaping an Academic Belonging: The Interloper Syndrome by Gender and Class

      • Barbara Bagilhole

      Pages 46-64

   4. A Mature-age Student

      • Jenny Neale

      Pages 65-82

   5. A Non-typical Academic Career

      • Maria Lourdes de Machado-Taylor

      Pages 83-102

   6. An Outsider in Academia

      • Kate White

      Pages 103-124

4. The Next Generation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Careers of Early- and Mid-career Academics

      • Teresa Carvalho, Özlem Özkanli, Heidi Prozesky, Helen Peterson

      Pages 127-165

5. Exploring Generational Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Continuity and Change in Academic Careers

      • Kate White, Barbara Bagilhole

      Pages 169-195

6. Back Matter

   Pages 196-203

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The first cross-cultural analysis of the differences in career trajectories and experiences between a senior group of women academics and a younger group who are at early and mid-career stages. Major themes in the autobiographical stories of these women were national context; organisational context; family, class and location; and agency.

• gender
• organization
• women
• banking

• Loughborough University, UK

  Barbara Bagilhole

• University of Ballarat, Australia

  Kate White

Teresa Carvalho, University of Aveiro, Portugal Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor, CIPES, Portugal Jenny Neale University of Wellington, New Zealand Pat O'Connor, University of Limerick, Ireland Özlem Özkanl?, Ankara University, Turkey Helen Peterson, Uppsala University, Sweden Heidi Prozesky, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

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