This paper engages with Diana Leonard's writing on how gender is constituted in the academy. It offers an international review of feminist knowledge on how gender and power interact with leadership in higher education. It interrogates the "leaderist turn" or how leadership has developed into a popular descriptor and a dominant social and…

Discusses the implications for women of Subject Review, a quality-assurance process involving the formal assessment of several aspects of teaching and learning in United Kingdom institutions of higher education. Contends that Subject Review does not benefit the professional goals and aspirations of most women in higher education. (Contains 44…

This article theorises findings from a research project investigating gender equity in Commonwealth higher education. The study interrogated enablers and impediments to gender equity in South Africa, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Uganda and Tanzania. The focus of inquiry was access, curriculum transformation and staff development. This article examines one…