ABSTRACT
Over the last 20 years, scholarship on gender and academia has analysed the diverse range of obstacles to the attainment of gender equality in higher education institutions. In the context of neoliberalism, there is a growing trend towards precarity at entry to academic careers, which has adverse and highly gendered outcomes. Academic institutions seek to promote gender equality and diversity through Gender Equality Plans to address the gendered division of work. In this context, management and senior leadership is constructed as ‘male’ work while other under-recognised roles, such as teaching, administration, pastoral care, are constructed as ‘female’ work. This chapter focuses on how gender equality and intersectionality can challenge this gender regime and the role of feminist scholarship in meeting this objective.
