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Book chapter
Making It As A Female Writing Program Administrator: Using Collective Action and Feminist Mentoring Practices to Transgress Gendered Boundaries
Women’s Ways of Making, pp.245-263
Utah State University Press
2021
Web of Science ID: WOS:000821116600014
Abstract
SARA AHMED, LIVING A FEMINIST LIFE
In Rhetorical Feminism and This Thing Called Hope, Cheryl Glenn reminds us that in the Western tradition of academia, mentorship, like leader-ship, has been characterized as white, masculine, individualistic, and hierarchical (2018, 149–50). This tradition is one way, then, that the academic world, as progressive as it may espouse to be, continues to marginalize women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ communities in and outside academe. These traditional mentoring practices contribute to documented trends of women in academia taking longer to achieve the rank of full professor, receiving lower salaries than men, and being critically underrepresented in upper administrative roles. These trends become more egregious when you make visible the overlapping identities of gender and race, revealing that higher education has failed abysmally to construct pathways for hiring, mentoring, retaining, and promoting women of color (Mercado-Lopez 2018).
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- Title
- Making It As A Female Writing Program Administrator
- Publication Details
- Women’s Ways of Making, pp.245-263
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publisher
- Utah State University Press; Logan
- Number of pages
- 19
- Identifiers
- WOS:000821116600014; 99381803084206600
- Academic Unit
- College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; English
- Language
- English