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The appointment of Ruth Simmons in 1994 as president of Smith College was hailed as a landmark event in US higher education because she was the first African American president of a Seven Sisters College. Seven years later, her 2001 appointment as the first woman president of Brown University and the first person of colour1 to head an elite Ivy League institution was another marker event in higher education in the United States. The status of women administrators has changed greatly in the past 25 years, but most attention has been directed to the extraordinary accomplishments of women presidents such as Dr Simmons. The experiences of the majority of women administrators, the landscapes of their institutions and the context of higher education have garnered little attention. Understanding changes in the representation of women administrators and current contexts associated with mobility and opportunity is critical for understanding the status of women administrators in American universities in the twenty-first century. In this chapter we present a current account of women administrators’ status in relationship to their mobility and opportunity and the current characteristics and dynamics of higher education institutions.
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Danowitz Sagaria, M.A., Rychener, M.A. (2004). Inside Leadership Circles and the Managerial Quagmire: Key Influences on Women Administrators’ Mobility and Opportunity in US Higher Education. In: Ali, S., Benjamin, S., Mauthner, M. (eds) The Politics of Gender and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230005532_7
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