Patterns of Career Development and their Role in the Advancement of Female Faculty at Austrian Universities: New Roads to Success?
- Autor(en)
- Nina-Sophie Fritsch
- Abstrakt
This article deals with successful female career strategies in the academic context in Austria. Although academic leadership is often portrayed as male-dominated zone, recent development shows profound change especially in the higher positions. Accordingly, this article investigates how female scientists reach leading positions and put forth a typology of career strategies with divergent subjective intentions that are decisive for women’s success in leading university-level positions. The study is based on 12 qualitative interviews with the most successful female leaders at Austrian universities. The main analysis yields a typology of three main career strategies: (1) the individualistic-output-driven strategy, (2) the political-sustainable strategy and the (3) adaptive-flexible strategy.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Soziologie
- Journal
- Higher Education: the international journal of higher education and educational planning
- ISSN
- 0018-1560
- Publikationsdatum
- 2015
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 504014 Gender Studies
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/71bc3c60-1ca0-4600-85f5-1b41a7df822f