Disruptive Women: A WomenEd Guide to Equitable Action in Education [Hardcover]

Disruptive Women is your guide to changing the status quo in the education system.

Drawing from rich, varied perspectives from across the global WomenEd community it offers guidance, solidarity and real-life examples of how to make change happen in four vital areas:

• Increasing the representation of women in educational leadership
• Breaking down barriers that exclude diverse women from leadership roles
• Disrupting the gender pay gap for women leaders
• Championing flexible working for more equitable working cultures

This is unmissable reading for anyone working in schools, universities and other educational organisations who recognises the need to disrupt, innovate and to change education to be more inclusive, equitable and diverse.This book, from the pioneering, grass roots education organisation WomenEd, contains practical, evidence-based guidance and tools to bring about positive change in educational organisations supported by examples of where such change has happened.

It offers you the power to disrupt, innovate and change education for the better.
Part 1: Increasing the representation of women in leadership - Lisa Hannay
Chapter 1 Time to use our superpowers - Amy Bowdler
Chapter 2 Powerful stories - Bianca Greenhalgh
Chapter 3 Harnessing the power of professional learning networks - Jessica Mahdavi-Gladwell
Chapter 4 Imposter syndrome: quietening the voices in our heads - Jess Gosling
Chapter 5 Networking to develop and innovate - Nasima Riazat
Chapter 6 Disrupting social norms: the Dream Gap Project - Kiran Satti
Case Study 1 Confronting unconscious bias - Rebecca Hoyes
Part 2: Breaking barriers: diverse women in educational leadership - Natasha Hilton
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