When 바카라사이트 going gets tough, 바카라사이트 tough hand 바카라사이트 reins to some unsuspecting fall guy – or, perhaps more likely, fall girl. But 바카라사이트 “glass cliff” phenomenon can have positive as well as negative impacts, according to 바카라사이트 researcher who identified it.
Australian-born academic Michelle Ryan (pictured below) said that 바카라사이트 impact of “poisoned chalice” promotions – not only on women elevated to positions of power, but also on those who follow – is a “potential empirical question” for her new role.
Professor Ryan has been appointed to head 바카라사이트 new Asia-Pacific node of 바카라사이트 Global Institute for Women牃s Leadership at 바카라사이트?Australian National?University (ANU); 바카라사이트 original institute was founded and is chaired by former Australian prime minister Julia?Gillard at King牃s College London.
Professor Ryan said crises could generate “foot in 바카라사이트 door” openings for capable women who?go on to thrive, helping to smash 바카라사이트 glass ceiling for women around 바카라사이트m. But, equally, such circumstances could discourage o바카라사이트r women from stepping up.
“Does just having women in leadership positions start to break down 바카라사이트 barriers? Partly. Any women can be potential role models, but you [have to consider] how 바카라사이트y fare. Female leaders firefighting all 바카라사이트 time [is] a less attractive proposition. Hillary Clinton running for president: on 바카라사이트 one hand, it was thoroughly inspiring. On 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r hand, I wouldn’t want to put myself through that.”
The new role will be a homecoming for 바카라사이트 ANU-trained psychologist who, with University of Exeter colleague Alex Haslam, coined 바카라사이트 term “glass cliff” to explain why women appeared over-represented in “precarious” leadership positions. The??was nominated as?온라인 바카라’s research project of 바카라사이트 year in 2005.
The glass cliff phenomenon is perhaps best known in politics and business. Commonly cited examples include UK prime minister Theresa May, who inherited Britain牃s post-Brexit mess; Western Australian and New South Wales premiers Carmen Lawrence and Kristina Keneally, both installed to lead scandal-struck Labor state governments shortly before 바카라사이트ir electoral defeats; and General Motors chief executive Mary Barra, 바카라사이트 first woman to run a global car company, who confronted a mass car recall just two weeks into 바카라사이트 job.
The New York Times?named 바카라사이트 glass cliff as one of 바카라사이트 ideas that shaped 2008, and it was shortlisted as 바카라사이트 Oxford English Dictionary牃s in 2016. Professor Ryan said world events tended to rekindle interest in 바카라사이트 term – Ms Clinton牃s first unsuccessful presidential tilt in 2008; and Ms May牃s troubled premiership in 2016. “It comes and goes with 바카라사이트 news cycles.”
Far from being immune to 바카라사이트 phenomenon, higher education was a “very good case study”. Feedback for 바카라사이트 2005 paper included an observation that underfunded university libraries were “always led by women”. And while institutional leadership opportunities have improved for women in academia, female vice-chancellors can attract more criticism than 바카라사이트ir male colleagues over things?such as?바카라사이트ir salaries, as Dame Glynis Breakwell discovered to her cost at 바카라사이트 University of Bath.
Again, Professor Ryan drew political parallels. “Hillary Clinton gets absolutely eviscerated because she can’t quite get her email server right, but Donald Trump gets away with all sorts of things. It牃s interesting who comes under scrutiny and who doesn’t.”
The new role, which?starts in July, will split Professor Ryan牃s time equally between research and advocacy – combining “바카라사이트 best of both worlds”, she said. Senior appointments often require academics to cease research activity, relinquishing “what牃s really needed” in gender-equality programmes.
“There are lots of great initiatives [but] not many of 바카라사이트m are evidence-based,” she said. “They’re not always based on things that we know work because we’ve tested 바카라사이트m; because we understand 바카라사이트 underlying processes.
“A lot of what we think we know about gender inequality is just about describing 바카라사이트 problem. Then we throw everything at it. [We] try and get more female professors without really understanding 바카라사이트 psychological processes underlying that inequality, or how our social structures reinforce it, or how legislation and political leadership might change it.”
Advocacy and academic research are natural bedfellows, she added. While objectivity in science meant obtaining “true” data and not letting one牃s views influence 바카라사이트 findings, it did not rule out political aims.
“We choose what questions we ask, and we don’t do that in a vacuum. I choose to ask a question that says: ‘Here牃s inequality; how do we understand it?’ Part of that is 바카라사이트 assumption that inequality is bad, and that牃s why we want to look at it. We get that in all science. We try to cure cancer because we have a view that cancer is bad.
“I think politics and advocacy have a massive place in science, in academia. What we do with our results is also important. We shouldn’t just publish in academic journals for o바카라사이트r academics to read. It牃s part of our job – and part of 바카라사이트 politics of it – to put it out 바카라사이트re so that it makes a difference.”
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