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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"women academics"”.
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Women academics' careers in Kenya
This thesis examined the experiences of women academics in relation to their family contribution, educational experiences and, factors that motivated them towards academia, while highlighting strategies that they have employed to reach their present professional and academic ranks. In addition, any …
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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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Appraisal in the Gendered Organisation: The Experience of Women Academics
This thesis investigates women academics' experiences of the gendered university culture, during a period of rapid change in the management of higher education and the academic profession. The research draws on a Foucauldian feminist methodology to understand how, and in what ways, the dominant …
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Women academics in engineering : reasons for commitment to the field
This study aims to investigate the reasons women in engineering academia provide for their continued presence in the field. A review of the literature shows that the underrepresentation of women in engineering is an issue of concern for policy makers in both public and private sectors. Engineering …
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Dismantling doubt: a study on impostor phenomenon among women academics in South Africa
… aimed at increasing the representation of women and black people have seen a notable shift in the demographics of the profession. However, this shift has also coincided with rising levels of impostorism among these groups, highlighting the complex interplay between societal changes and …
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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-Life Balance and Women Academics in Higher Education: A Comparative Study of UK and Nigeria
… around work-life balance, particularly for women due to an increased likelihoodof managing caring commitments and domestic work. Despite extensive debates, the role ofculture in influencing the work-life balance experiences of women has received much lessattention. Where culture has been …
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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion At the University of Cape Town, South Africa: The Experience of Black Women Academics
… thesis examines the lived experiences of Black women academics in South African universities, focusing on a case study from the University of Cape Town (UCT). Since the end of apartheid, scholars have questioned the disconnect between the goals and objectives of transformation strategies and the …
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The emotional labour of academics : the rational and the relational
… to develop a thick description and typology of academics' views of emotional labour. An archetypal factor described an ideal of emotional labour. After it was rotated, a three-factor, polythetic typology emerged, confirmed by content analysis of the interviews. Factors A, B, and C represented …
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Exploring the under-representation of women at Vice Chancellor level in the UK through gender and leadership development lenses
… research into the under-representation of women at Vice Chancellor level in UK Higher Education. Less than 15% of Vice Chancellors are women, whereas women make up 51% of the general population, 50% of early career academics and 60% of higher education students. The research presented in …
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Women in Science and Technology in Higher Education in Ghana: Policy Environments and Experiences
… intriguing, in view of the relative scarcity of women in the S&T fields, there is surprisingly little knowledge concerning the attributes and the experiences of those African women who do enrol and teach in S&T fields, and who thus can serve as role models for younger girls who have an interest …
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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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Career Narratives of Women Professors in South Africa
The statistics on the gender profile of academics in South African universities show that women are concentrated at the lower levels of the hierarchy with very few women at the uppermost level of professorship. At the time that this study was conducted women comprised only eight percent of the …
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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 …