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Policy Implications for Equity, Gender, and Widening Participation in Higher Education

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posted on 2023-09-01, 14:32 authored by Penny J. Burke, Miriam E. David, Marie-Pierre Moreau
This chapter examines the intersecting inequalities and differences in HE that persist de­spite decades of HE policy focused on equity and widening participation. Attention is giv­en to the ways that patriarchy, neo-liberalism, corporatization, and managerialism work together to generate new forms of inequality and power relations, which include inequali­ties in access and participation, women in leadership positions, sexual assault or harass­ment on campus, care-less university cultures, and complex temporal inequalities. The chapter examines the emergence of widening participation and equity policies in many countries of both the global North and the global South whilst the forces of globalization, neo-liberalism, and marketization have repositioned students as consumers of the market of higher education. It shows how these forces have produced an individualizing focus on student and staff experience, concealing the contextual, temporal, and structural inequal­ities that profoundly undermine policy concerns to widen access and participation. Indi­vidualism and marketization impact student and staff experiences in relation to the differ­ent social location and the gendering of education, work, and family, which privileges the productive (with a focus on paid labour and employability) over the reproductive (with a focus on unpaid labour and caring) dimensions of social life. The chapter shows the pow­er of feminist analyses of questions of equity and widening participation to bring to light the insidious ways that inequalities are reproduced through the neo-liberal, patriarchal university.

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Publisher

Oxford University Press

Place of publication

Oxford, UK

Title of book

The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education Systems and University Management

ISBN

9780198822905

Editors

Gordon Redding, Antony Drew, Steven Crump

File version

  • Published version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2019-07-26

Legacy creation date

2019-07-25

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine & Social Care

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