Exploring Women's Experiences in Higher Education

This book considers the structure and demographics of the workforce in nursing and midwifery higher education, observing the gender divide, highlighting the impact of intersectionality and exploring the challenges and opportunities this provides.

Jo Divers is Associate Dean for Learning, Teaching and Student Experience of the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Public Health, University of Suffolk, UK. Sam Chenery-Morris is Dean of the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Public Health, University of Suffolk, UK.

Introduction. Celebrating Women in Higher Education - A Case of Nurses and Midwives, 1. What it means to be female?, 2. The Power of Practice, 3. Nursing and Midwifery Education; Women's Work?, 4. The Social Mobility of Nursing Educators, 5. Being a Black academic in a predominantly white university, 6. (In)visible Sexuality, 7. Working Mothers & Carers, 8. Neurodiversity, Chronic Illness and Disability: Working in Nursing & Midwifery HE with an Unseen Impairment, 9. Whataboutery? What about men in nursing and midwifery education?, 10. Why We Need to Celebrate Women in Nursing & Midwifery HE