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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Academic women"”.
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Institutional Ethnography: How Tenured Academic Women Talk About Success
This institutional ethnography on tenured academic women focused on how twenty women talked about success. The purpose of this study was to use the discourse of tenured academic women to illustrate social interactions that constitute and transform the ruling relations. Institutional ethnography, a …
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The 'glass-ceiling' phenomenon in the career development of successful academic women.
… psychology theory related to the success of academic women in higher education. The literature review reveals that there are differing views on the reasons for women failing to break through the glass ceiling in the higher education setting. Some authors concentrate on the environmental …
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Career development and the vitality of academic women in an era of intensifying globalisation
… and projects have rewarded a limited number of women at the cost of the wellbeing of people and planet. To target simple equality between men and women seemed increasingly inadequate for transformation of the trajectory of globalisation if the thriving of all humanity and restoration of Earth is …
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Academic Women and the Institutionalisation of English at the University of Cambridge, 1898-1938
… rarely incorporate any substantial discussion of women who taught, researched and studied at Cambridge in the early twentieth century. This thesis suggests that the relationship of women with the embryonic English Tripos has been overlooked largely because of the less straightforward ways they …
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Perspectives from below the ceiling : academic women and the transition from Senior Lecturer to the Professoriate - a case study
Despite progressive increases in women’s academic employment over the past 20 years, women continue to be under-represented in senior academic roles above the level of Senior Lecturer (Level C). This thesis explores whether there are specific barriers in operation that serve to prevent women’s …
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How Do Non-Academic Women Who Identify as Black and Ethnic Minorities in HEIs in the UK Experience Challenges in their Career Progression Aspirations and How Can This Be Understood Using an Intersectionality Lens?
Career progression for non-academic Black and minority ethnic (BME) women is challenging and has resulted in HEIs having questionable approaches in their endeavours to achieve fair representation. The Equality Act (2010), which meant to help reduce inequality in organisations including HEIs, has …
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Creating 'space' for publication: challenges faced by women academic staff members at historically Black South African universities
… with regard to publications experienced by academic women at three selected Historically Black Universities (HBUs). Although based predominantly within a feminist qualitative metholodogical framework, both qualitative and quantitative research methods were used in this study. Based on the …
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Career psychology factors as antecedents of career success of women academics in South Africa
… in career success among male and female academics is welldocumented and a number of qualitative studies have offered explanations about the challenges faced by women academics. This study provided an empirical investigation into the relationship between selected career psychology …
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Work-family responsibilities and support for women academics in Pakistan
Globally women have a long history of negotiating between public and private life. While each individual woman undertakes such negotiation, all women’s lives are already shaped by historical, political, religious and cultural forces. This study focused on contemporary academic women in Pakistan and …
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Can We Have It All? Painting a Picture of the Adjunct, Clinical, and Tenured/ Tenure-Track Faculty Mother Experience At a Large Southern Public Research University
… Wolf-Wendel & Ward, 2006). Although both men and women have served as faculty members and parents, the physical demands of motherhood and the gendered expectations for mothers proved the work/parenting role balance to be harder on faculty women. Academic women have suffered what is referred to as …
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The race to the top: the experiences and strategies of women of colour in UK academia
… level, the underrepresentation of BAME women in senior positions in academia, particularly in professorship positions remains of high interest for academics, practitioners, and policymakers. To have better understanding of this wicked problem, this study critically explores the extent to …
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Culture and religion constrain women in the academic sphere : the case of Lesotho
The subjugation of women dates back to ancient times. Through the centuries the suppression of women has taken different forms. With a few exceptions most African societies are patriarchal in character. They relegate women to a minor position and subject them to the guardianship of male partners. …
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Women's career in Vietnamese academia: An analysis from multiple lenses
… governments’ efforts to eliminate obstacles to women’s career progress, the global labour market is characterised by gender inequality. Women are more likely than men to be employed in vulnerable jobs and support roles and underrepresented in senior management levels across all sectors (ILO, …