Introduction

This edited collection contains multiple readings and interpretations of women’s engagement with higher education as academics, researchers and students. Chapters demonstrate and examine processes of equity and change, in relation to organizational culture, curriculum development, knowledge production, and the needs and contributions of diverse women. Black women, disabled women, Irish women, mothers and older women, and women in male-dominated disciplinary locations such as management education, theorize and share experiences. In so doing they document and challenge the often implicit obstacles to equality and feminism in the academy.