I Think She’s Decided To Be a Manager Now: Women, Management and Leadership in the Knowledge Factory

Brabazon, Tara and Murray, Elizabeth (2015) I Think She’s Decided To Be a Manager Now: Women, Management and Leadership in the Knowledge Factory. Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education (3-4). pp. 28-53. ISSN 1821-1283

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Abstract

Stanley Aronowitz wrote a prescient book in 2000. Titled The Knowledge Factory, it did not take women academics as its focus, but emphasized the consequences of separating the teaching/researching academic from the ‘manager.’ This demarcation of teaching, research and management has intensified through the 2000s. This is also a gendered separation. This article offers a model for women moving into higher education leadership, based on a considered integration of teaching, research and university service. We argue for a transformation, moving from Rosemary Deem’s “manager-academics” to “academics who manage.” This is not simply a movement from a compound noun to a noun and verb, but a reminder that university leaders are academics first, and manage within the context of their academic responsibilities.

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