TY - BOOK ID - 8285072 TI - Career Moves : Mentoring for Women Advancing Their Career and Leadership in Academia PY - 2014 SN - 9462094837 9462094853 9462094845 PB - Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, DB - UniCat KW - Businesswomen. KW - Mentoring in business. KW - Mentoring in the professions. KW - Women in the professions. KW - Education KW - Social Sciences KW - Education - General KW - Mentors in business KW - Entrepreneurs, Women KW - Women entrepreneurs KW - Women in business KW - Mentors in the professions KW - Education. KW - Education, general. KW - Business KW - Employees KW - Businesspeople KW - Women-owned business enterprises KW - Professions KW - Coaching of KW - Children KW - Education, Primitive KW - Education of children KW - Human resource development KW - Instruction KW - Pedagogy KW - Schooling KW - Students KW - Youth KW - Civilization KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Mental discipline KW - Schools KW - Teaching KW - Training KW - Women in higher education. KW - Career development. KW - Leadership in women. KW - Women's leadership KW - Women KW - Career advancement KW - Career ladder KW - Career management KW - Career planning KW - Development, Career KW - Development, Professional KW - Employee development KW - Organizational career development KW - Professional development KW - Personnel management KW - Vocational guidance KW - Education, Higher KW - Psychology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8285072 AB - Mentoring and career guidance are the missing ingredients in women’s career planning at the higher education level. Career Moves recognizes and gives voice to some of the common career concerns of women in higher education and responds to these through well informed, researched and experiential chapters focussing on interests specific to women in academia. Career Moves draws on the substantial knowledge, experience and information of successful women currently working in higher education. Each chapter presents strategic information for academics working in higher education who may be seeking insider’s advice about negotiating their careers. The authors, as ‘mentors’, reflect, discuss and offer critical learning to the readers. The aim is to help guide and shape women’s career moves in higher education. In this international edition authors have given personal accounts of what works and how women could prepare for the next stages of their academic careers. Authors have given sociological accounts of obstacles and how these can impede women if they are not aware of strategies to overcome barriers. Insights about successful mentoring programs are highlighted to provide possible models for organizations. Career Moves is an international collection of book chapters that explore a range of specific issues that all women in higher education face or will face as they move up the career ladder. ER -