Looking good and being good: Women leaders in Australian universities

Education Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Fitzgerald, Tanya ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Expectations; Gender; Image; Leadership; Performance; Visibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 85061209400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22277102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/educsci8020054     Document Type: Article

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