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Keywords: gender; leadership; women higher education administrators; counter narratives; narrative research; feminist praxis
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“Oh, I’M A Damsel In Distress”: Women Higher Education Leaders’ Narratives, Jill Channing
“Oh, I’M A Damsel In Distress”: Women Higher Education Leaders’ Narratives, Jill Channing
Journal of Women in Educational Leadership
This study focused on women higher education administrators’ experiences related to intersections of gender and work lives, using a narrative analysis research methodology. Women administrators shared stories of the influence of gender on their work lives. Participants “violated” gender norms by pursuing traditionally male-dominated careers, and some shared experiences of sex discrimination and/or witnessed phenomena such as the glass ceiling, sexual harassment, and various double binds related to gender stereotypes. Participants’ stories challenge the literature’s focus on barriers and gender-related challenges for women higher education administrators. Social constructions of gender, contexts, individual personalities, critical life events, among other factors inform …