Higher educational organisations across the EU, and indeed globally, remain maledominated. The fact that men occupy 86 per cent of all positions of Rector/ President/Vice Chancellor and 76 per cent of all full professorial positions, illustrates the way in which these organisations are designed by men for men. Their deeply embedded structural and cultural features reflect, reinforce and perpetuate patriarchal and more recently managerialist and neoliberal forces. This article provides an introduction to a Special Issue focussing on gender equality in higher education. Articles included offer a critique of how higher educational institutions across Ireland, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are addressing the perennial issue of gender equality. The Special Issue emanates from a symposium funded by the Irish Research Council and hosted in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, in October 2018. The papers are organised according to three over-arching themes: the gendered character of academia; female leadership in academia; and gendered organisations. It concludes with suggestions regarding a future research agenda.

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规划学院性别平等议程

整个欧盟乃至全球的高等教育组织仍然以男性为主。男性占所有校长/校长/副校长职位的 86% 和所有正教授职位的 76% 这一事实说明了这些组织是由男性为男性设计的。它们根深蒂固的结构和文化特征反映、加强和延续了父权制和最近的管理主义和新自由主义力量。本文介绍了专注于高等教育中的性别平等的特刊。包括的文章批评了爱尔兰、英国、加拿大、澳大利亚和新西兰的高等教育机构如何解决长期存在的性别平等问题。本期特刊源自于 2018 年 10 月由爱尔兰研究委员会资助并在都柏林皇家爱尔兰学院举办的研讨会。这些论文根据三个总体主题进行组织：学术界的性别特征；学术界的女性领导；和性别组织。最后提出了有关未来研究议程的建议。