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A Journey of difference:the voices of women leaders

Showunmi, V; (2020) A Journey of difference:the voices of women leaders. Frontiers in Education 10.3389/feduc.2021.548870. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

This paper offers a view on narrative inquiries based upon leadership, in order to shed light on women’s of colour and multicultural groups experience and nuance understanding of their leadership career path. Since black and other ethnic group women are ‘theoretically erased’ (Crenshaw, 1989: 139), this empirical study offers an insight into how gender, class and race influence on women’s leadership practices in three countries, while it adds to theorising identity and leadership at schools in different international contexts. This paper intends to give voice to women leaders who are making a difference in their organisation. During the past decade, interest in gender and leadership has grown to the extent that it is slowly becoming part of the leadership norm. Narrative inquiries are treated as a means of a systematic data gathering and analysis which challenges the traditional views of gender discussions (thus gender is predominantly about white women) and incorporating ethnic minority around leadership. Unfolding the stories of women –from multi-ethnic groups and mixed social class- higher education leadership positions in England, and Pakistan, may expose differences of interpretations offered by researchers from a racially and ethnically diverse background (black and white Europeans). Hence, an issue that arises is whether researchers’ cultural background affects data interpretation of studies with a highly qualitative stance.

Type:	Article
Title:	A Journey of difference:the voices of women leaders
Open access status:	An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI:	10.3389/feduc.2021.548870
Publisher version:	http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.548870
Language:	English
Additional information:	Copyright: © 2021 Showunmi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
UCL classification:	UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society
URI:	https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10097172