WOMEN IN HIGHER-EDUCATION MANAGEMENT IN THAILAND

This paper reports on a case study of ten academic women in senior man agement positions in the higher education sector in Thailand. The stud y investigates women's perceptions of 'glass ceiling' factors that imp ede women's career advancement. Issues addressed include: gendered man agement styles, family and childcare responsibilities, career plans an d aspirations, married or single status, and age as a factor mediating women's career mobility. It is argued throughout that the western con cept of glass ceiling cannot be taken as a universal explanation of wo men's career impediments. Rather, research on women's career tracks in higher education must take women's differences, their histories, and cultural locations into analytic account.