Women, Decision Making and Academia

Emerald - Tập 9 Số 3 - Trang 11-16 - 1994
JanetHandley1
1University of Huddersfield, Hudderfield, UK

Tóm tắt

Considers the role of women within academia and outlines their experience of decision making within this context. Outlines the significant results of a study on female academics within one institute of higher education. In particular, women are found to experience an exclusion from informal networks and a consequent lack of access to real‐time information via the grapevine. They also perceive themselves to have less influence on organizational decision making than their male counterparts and suffer from a greater feeling of intimidation of authority, finding it difficult to make themselves heard in decision‐making meetings.

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