Asian Women as Leaders and Managers in Higher Education
Author | : Le Cam Huyen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Education, Higher |
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This study involves an examination of the absence of Asian women in the literature on women in leadership and management in higher education (HE). There exists a literature on Asian women in management, recently depicted by a number of studies on the changing face of Asian women managers (Adler, 1993; Benson and Yukongdi, 2005; Budhwar, Saini, and Bhatnagar, 2005; Chou, Posh, and Foster, 2005; Cooke, 2005; Kang and Rowley, 2005; Lee, 2005; Ng and Chakrabarty, 2005; Rowley and Truong, 2009; Yuasa, 2005; Yukongdi, 2005; Yukongdi and Benson, 2005; Yukongdi and Rowley, 2009). However there has been a paucity of research in HE in these studies. The economics and socio-cultures of Asian countries within which HE systems operate are never homogeneous. Yet, as this thesis argues, the available discourses of women in leadership and management, largely grounded in Western countries, have led to deficiencies in the knowledge about the experiences and perspectives of Asian women as leaders and managers (Omar and Davidson, 2001). This culminates in a failure to thoroughly explain the worldwide prevalent problem of women's under-representation in leadership and management positions. This thesis uses Vietnam as a context in order to examine the current literature on Asian women as leaders and managers in HE, and the role of women in modern Vietnamese universities.