From a social constructionist perspective, social processes in everyday interactions help to construct reality and from a symbolic interactionist perspective, people act towards things based on the meanings they have for them and these meanings derive from interactions and these meanings are modified through a process of interpretation (Berger & Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality and Herbert Blumer, Symbolic Interactionism ).
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Gender-Based Leadership Barriers: Advancement of Female Faculty to Leadership Positions in Higher Education
Valerie A. Storey (University of Central Florida, USA), Amanda K. Anthony (University of Central Florida, USA), and Parveen Wahid (University of Central Florida, USA)
Copyright: © 2017
|Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1049-9.ch018
Abstract
This chapter identifies gender-based leadership barriers according to socio-historical, institutional, and interactional factors that may be external and internal to universities, yet influence women's advancement in the context of higher education. The review suggests problems of under-representation of female faculty leaders in higher education derives from stereotypes attached to women regarding their lack of capacity to hold leadership positions and, consequentially, barriers to navigate the perceived masculine world of leadership. We conclude with contemporary evidence-practices scholars have put forth for addressing gender-based leadership barriers.