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Acker, Sandra – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2010
This article looks at women's efforts to construct an academic leadership career. It is not a study of women's leadership in general but one that takes place in what Bourdieu calls the academic field. Drawing from an in-depth interview study of 31 women from faculties of education who occupy managerial positions in universities in Canada,…
Descriptors: Females, Figurative Language, Leadership Training, Foreign Countries