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Barriers to women's representation in academic excellence and positions of power
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Abstract "Nearly for half a century women's advancement in the workplace has been in a debate. Women’s under-represented in higher education institutions and universities across the globe, and especially in the most powerful or influential posts, is well established. Despite gender equality commitments and w... view more
"Nearly for half a century women's advancement in the workplace has been in a debate. Women’s under-represented in higher education institutions and universities across the globe, and especially in the most powerful or influential posts, is well established. Despite gender equality commitments and women's educational attainment, still, they are underrepresented. Regions and countries may vary in term of culture, achievements and development, but barriers for women's representation in academia are surprisingly similar in many regions. It is found that there are several barriers which women might be experiencing in academia ranging from personal, organizational to societal." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
women's employment; academic (female); discrimination; Pakistan; power; university; equal opportunity; deprivation; inequality; executive position; proportion of women; stereotype; woman; sociocultural factors; South Asia; affirmative action; gender-specific factors
Classification
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Labor Market Research
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 1-13
Journal
Asian Journal of German and European Studies, 2 (2017)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40856-017-0013-6
ISSN
2199-4579
Status
Preprint; peer reviewed