Women and Academic Leadership: a Hong Kong case-study

Conference Theme: University Traditions: a Resource or a Burden?Plenary panel: Academic Development and Pursuit of Excellence: Hong Kong’s Legacies and Aspiration

Leading the academy or being led? Hong Kong women academics, Higher Education

This paper provides a new gender-based analysis of survey data collected on Hong Kong academics in 2008. First, it illustrates the gender differences that exist in the Hong Kong academy. Second, it discusses possible explanations for these differences as informed by the data. And third, it offers a novel argument, again informed by the data, for the importance of addressing these differences, particularly with respect to the issue of women and academic leadership