Intellectual shows facade, ignoring female with male in charge (8)
I believe the answer is:
academic
'intellectual' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'facade ignoring female with male in charge' is the wordplay.
'ignoring' is a deletion indicator.
'female' becomes 'f' (abbreviation).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'male' becomes 'm' (common abbreviation).
'in charge' becomes 'ic'.
'facade' with 'f' taken out is 'acade'.
'acade'+'m'+'ic'='ACADEMIC'
'shows' is the link.
(Other definitions for academic that I've seen before include "One that's learned" , "A person studying" , "Notional" , "Scholar - of no practical relevance" , "Of theoretical interest, or scholarly" .)