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The Discursive Framing of Women Leaders: A Feminist Poststructural Review

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Abstract

This review examines discursive framing of women leaders in higher education. Using a feminist post-structural framework, key pieces of feminist critical policy analysis and organizational theory are synthesized to compare competing discourses of masculinity and femininity in leadership. Despite women’s increased access to high status jobs, there is still considerable variation across demographics, and women face obstacles to leadership success that have roots in the discursive framing of gender identity. Some obstacles include behavioral norms and expectations, wage differentials, meaning making, and ethic or ways of knowing. This review presents suggestions for alternative discourses to those accepted in our social construction of reality as well as an argument for retaining an ethic of intersectional feminism in feminist critical policy analysis.

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