Precarity at the top for women in STEMM academic leadership
From a modest upbringing in Greece to the chancellorship of a major US university, Prof. Linda Katehi’s story is inspirational. In her 2023 book “Higher Ground”, Prof. Katehi does not shy away from describing the challenges she overcame as well as the opposition and backlash that led to her resignation as chancellor. This is a copy of a post published in the Epistimi blog series at: https://www.epistimi.org/blog/precarity-at-the-top-for-women-in-stemm-academic-leadership
Authors
- L.P.B. Katehi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9022-032X)
- Janet Gordon Hering (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0865-1946)
- Patricia Maurice (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3920-8932)
Institutions
- University of Notre Dame (US)
- ETH Zurich (CH)
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
- Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (CH)
- Texas A&M University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-11-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23695845
- Primary Topic
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00