Quitting Academia
Why Women and Men Leave and What it Says About Higher Education
Seiten
2026
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-2990-8 (ISBN)
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-2990-8 (ISBN)
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This insightful book explores what drives academics to leave their careers, and examines their experiences during and after the process of quitting higher education. Anna M. Górska highlights how a career in academia has moved from being a secure and meaningful profession to one that is increasingly competitive and demanding, resulting in faculty burnout.
Based on 42 in-depth interviews with tenured and tenure-track faculty, the book brings forward nuanced, personal narratives that explore why people leave academia, and how they subsequently rebuild their identities, careers, and lives. Górska critically engages with neoliberalism, exploring how managerialism, performativity, and market-driven logics have reshaped academic identities and institutions. Górska also analyses the gendered experience of quitting academia, emphasising that women face additional systemic inequalities and invisible forms of labour that shape their career trajectories. This book challenges the assumption that leaving is a personal failure, instead arguing that quitting can be a courageous response to a system that no longer serves those within it.
This book is an essential resource for students and academics in higher education studies, diversity and management, gender studies and organisational studies. It is also an informative read for academic leaders, administrators and policymakers, as well as academics who are considering alternative career paths.
Based on 42 in-depth interviews with tenured and tenure-track faculty, the book brings forward nuanced, personal narratives that explore why people leave academia, and how they subsequently rebuild their identities, careers, and lives. Górska critically engages with neoliberalism, exploring how managerialism, performativity, and market-driven logics have reshaped academic identities and institutions. Górska also analyses the gendered experience of quitting academia, emphasising that women face additional systemic inequalities and invisible forms of labour that shape their career trajectories. This book challenges the assumption that leaving is a personal failure, instead arguing that quitting can be a courageous response to a system that no longer serves those within it.
This book is an essential resource for students and academics in higher education studies, diversity and management, gender studies and organisational studies. It is also an informative read for academic leaders, administrators and policymakers, as well as academics who are considering alternative career paths.
Anna M. Górska, PhD, Director of Research Center for Women and Diversity in Organizations, Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland
Contents
“Work was love”
Preface
1 Introduction
2 Academia as a profession
3 The sins of modern academia
4 The higher education landscape in the United States
5 Method
6 Why do academics decide to leave academia?
7 How do academics navigate the process of leaving academia?
8 How do ex-academics’ careers and personal lives evolve after
departure?
9 Conclusions
Afterword
References
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.1.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Cheltenham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-0353-2990-5 / 1035329905 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-0353-2990-8 / 9781035329908 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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