A Career with a View: Agentic Perspectives of Women Faculty

KerryAnn O'Meara

The Journal of Higher Education, 2015, vol. 86, issue 3, 331-359

Abstract: This study examined how women faculty in one research university enacted agency via perspectives that facilitated their career advancement amidst gendered organizational practices. Archer's (2003) critical realist theory of agency and inner conversations and Acker's (2006) work on gendered organizations guided analysis. Four perspectives adopted by women associate and full professors to achieve their goals are described and analyzed. These four perspectives contributed toward agentic actions, as well as women's satisfaction and well-being. The strengths and the limitations of supporting agentic perspectives as a way to advance gender equity and organizational change are presented.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2015.11777367

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