The 'Willful' Secretary: Secrets, Silences and Subjectivity in Feminist Research on Women Leaders in Australian Higher Education

Womens experiences of leadership in Australian higher education are in the context of an era in which the transformation of work, structural reform and neoliberalism has significantly altered the academic environment. Women have been included without any real change to existing gendered social and organisational structures and there remains a paucity of academic women in leadership positions. Today, the pervasiveness of gender inequality in higher education is more hidden and is a product of ongoing post-industrial economic and political neoliberal reform.