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Direct linkCarmen Elena Jijón de la Torre – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2025
This article presents the artistic process employed by a group of young women in an academic setting at the Central University of Ecuador, as they wrote four documentary plays. These students, belonging to the first generation to have access to a dramaturgy class in a public university in the country, utilized an innovative to develop their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Females, Drama
Beth Godbee; Rasha Diab – College Composition and Communication, 2025
What are we in rhetoric, writing, and literacy studies currently practicing? What practices do harm and, in contrast, which counter harm? How do we disrupt everyday, cumulative, and structural injustices and instead invest in accountability? In addition to asking these and other questions, this article engages four accountability practices that…
Descriptors: Accountability, Higher Education, Violence, Feminism
Sydney Gary; Adrienne Allison; Shannon Lynn Burton; Clare Cuthbert-Martinez; Lauren Jones McKown; Sarah Rankin; Kaitlin Spear, Editor; Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education, Contributor; Committee on Women in Science Engineering and Medicine, Contributor; Policy and Global Affairs, Contributor – National Academies Press, 2025
Postdoctoral scholars are particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment because of their early career stage, a lack of clear institutional policies, and dyadic relationships with their advisors, among other factors. Recent surveys and listening sessions have reiterated this issue, indicating that workplace bullying, harassment, and discrimination…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Postdoctoral Education, Graduate Students, Bullying
Sheila Miranda Russell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This critical autoethnographic study explored my multifaceted journey of being Black and female in administration within a predominately white higher education institution. I drew upon personal narratives and reflections from 25 years of experience in higher education. This study explored the intricate intersections of race, gender, and power…
Descriptors: Administrators, Blacks, African Americans, Females
Monica A. Santander – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative constructivist grounded theory study used an integrated intersectional lens and Chicana feminist epistemology to examine how nine queer Latina leaders in higher education experienced their racialized and heterogendered positioning within higher education structures, how this shaped the everyday experiences of their work, and how…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Females, Homosexuality, Leadership
Cynthia Trililani; Annadís Greta Rúdólfsdóttir; Kristiina Brunila – Whiteness and Education, 2024
Despite the diversity and inclusion efforts of higher education institutions, immigrant and minority students frequently experience marginalisation that adversely affects their academic progress. In this article, we examine the under-researched population of immigrant women in Icelandic universities. Drawing on the intersectionality perspective,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Females, College Students, Student Experience
Nichelle J. Gordon-Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Historically, Black women have been underrepresented in top-level leadership positions in colleges and universities in the United States (Parker, 2015). Despite the fast-growing diverse student population and initiatives aimed at diversifying leadership programs and addressing pay equity gaps (Bartman, 2015; Chance, 2022; Patton & Croom,…
Descriptors: Females, African Americans, Blacks, Leadership Role
Phelps-Ward, Robin; Latz, Amanda O.; Kelly, Bridget Turner; Kortegast, Carrie – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
The purpose of this study is to re-examine and reimagine the role of power in participatory visual methodologies (PVM) research. From our four unique standpoints as higher education faculty (two of us identify as queer white women and two of us identify as Black women; all of us as ciswomen), we engage a collective autoethnographic approach to…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Research Methodology, College Faculty, Reflection
Sumpter, Lovisa – Education Inquiry, 2023
This paper aims to investigate the reasons some female mathematicians give to justify their choice to not work in academia after finishing their doctoral studies. Nine female mathematicians who finished a PhD in Sweden answered a written questionnaire. Through collective narrative analysis, two main tracks were identified. One narrative described…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics, Professional Personnel, Females
Weili Zhao – Gender and Education, 2024
In this paper, I revisit a spontaneous "laughter" event in a college classroom in China to decolonize in three steps my/our otherwise naturalized modernity/coloniality assumptions about teaching/teachers, learning/learners, gender, objects, and classroom space toward a Daoist affective ecological imaginary. First, I invoke postcritical…
Descriptors: Humor, Feminism, Power Structure, Philosophy
Aimee Quickfall – Higher Education Quarterly, 2025
This study explored the experiences of women who are academics working in UK higher education (HE), using a feminist approach and narrative methods and analysis. The purpose of the research was to explore the experiences of women, with a view to highlighting potential shared experiences, informing the policies of universities and adding to the…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Foreign Countries, Social Influences, Teacher Attitudes
Locke, Kirsten; McChesney, Katrina – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2023
Hélène Cixous is perhaps best known for her paper, 'The Laugh of the Medusa' (1976) and her literary contributions outside academia. In this paper, we pick up a lesser known Cixous text, 'Le Sexe ou la tête?' that offers an interesting and provocative perspective on the traps associated with being feminine in a masculine environment. As we…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Females, Femininity, College Faculty
Ana Tankosic; Sender Dovchin – TESOL Journal, 2024
With a focus on Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) women, this article will discuss the underlying gender inequalities and stereotypes these women experience in Australian tertiary institutions through reflections of translingual discrimination. Translingual discrimination refers to the ideologies and practices that produce unequal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, College Students, Equal Education
Joanna G. Jauchen – PRIMUS, 2024
There has been and continues to be a substantial amount of work done to encourage, support, and retain women in mathematics. However, very little has been written about the faculty leading these gender-based initiatives, most of whom are women. This dynamic--women advocating on behalf of other women--is connected to identity-based activist…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Advocacy, Activism
McCallion, Anne-Marie – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2022
This paper describes and analyses the experience of the participants of an undergraduate reading group on 'The Wartime Quartet'. In the first section, I explain the set-up of the reading group. In the second section, I discuss what the participants shared and the trends we noticed in our experiences as women and marginalised genders studying…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Reading, Groups, Recreational Reading
