“…To achieve greater gender equality in university leadership, it is important to understand better how females in academia progress towards leadership and what their experiences as leaders are. While many studies have recently been conducted on the topic (see, for example, Acker, 2012, 2014; Airini et al, 2011; Aiston, 2014; Morley, 2014; Morley and Crossouard, 2016; McNae and Vali, 2015; Obers, 2015; Wallace and Marchant, 2009), most of the prior research has been ‘constructed, classified, and theorized from a white hegemonic perspective’ (McNae and Vali, 2015: 289), which has led to homogenization, marginalization and silencing of women educational leaders from non-Western countries (Fitzgerald, 2006). More studies of female experiences as academic leaders in various cultural contexts are necessary to explain women’s leadership experiences in non-Western contexts (Fitzgerald, 2006).…”