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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Women scholars"”.
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An Analysis on the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Effect on Women Faculty in Higher Education
The number of women in higher education is growing but they are still faced with the innate discrimination of being a woman. While higher education institutions have not been absolved from the gender wage gap issue, they have been one of the slowest to adapt to the growing workforce of women. This …
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Their eyes were watching Zora: storientation, black girl magic, and Afrofuturistic implications for educators
… works and collecting oral histories from Black women scholars across the United States. These narratives provide invaluable insights into Black girls’ resilience and inform future educational practices to support them. This study also addresses the challenges faced by Black girls in educational …
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Cracking the Bamboo Ceiling: Examining the Academic and Professional Identity Development of Asian American Women Faculty
… professors of color in the U.S., Asian American women account for only 3.84 percent of all full-time professors. Researchers speculate that Asian American women are often motivated to choose majors and careers considered “culturally valued”; majors that are focused more on STEM areas and careers …
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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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Creating 'space' for publication: challenges faced by women academic staff members at historically Black South African universities
… 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 findings of …