Career success for women academics in higher education: choices and challenges
- Authors: Obers, Nöelle Marie Thérèse
- Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Type: article , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/61346 , vital:28017 , http://0-journals.co.za.wam.seals.ac.za/content/high/28/3/EJC159132
- Description: The aim of the research reported on in this article was to contribute to an understanding of how women academics experience career success; how their choices and challenges impact on their career advancement; and how the playing fields in academia can be levelled. Understanding the constraints and identifying enabling aspects may help women academics to overcome obstacles in their career development and be more represented in academia and ultimately in society. This research was a case study undertaken at one higher education institution (HEI), Rhodes University (RU). The data was collected from institutional documents; questionnaire data from women academics at the HEI; and in-depth interviews with six women academics. The data indicate that mentoring is a strategy to enhance levels of self-esteem and research productivity and ultimately improve the representation of women in leadership and senior positions.
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- Date Issued: 2014
- Authors: Obers, Nöelle Marie Thérèse
- Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Type: article , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/61346 , vital:28017 , http://0-journals.co.za.wam.seals.ac.za/content/high/28/3/EJC159132
- Description: The aim of the research reported on in this article was to contribute to an understanding of how women academics experience career success; how their choices and challenges impact on their career advancement; and how the playing fields in academia can be levelled. Understanding the constraints and identifying enabling aspects may help women academics to overcome obstacles in their career development and be more represented in academia and ultimately in society. This research was a case study undertaken at one higher education institution (HEI), Rhodes University (RU). The data was collected from institutional documents; questionnaire data from women academics at the HEI; and in-depth interviews with six women academics. The data indicate that mentoring is a strategy to enhance levels of self-esteem and research productivity and ultimately improve the representation of women in leadership and senior positions.
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- Date Issued: 2014
Influential structures: understanding the role of the head of department in relation to women academics’ research careers
- Authors: Obers, Nöelle Marie Thérèse
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: article , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/61357 , vital:28018 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1080/07294360.2015.1024632
- Description: This study was conducted at a small ‘research-led’ institution in South Africa. The data indicate that women produce less research than men and have low levels of professional self-esteem. Factors such as accrual of social capital, family responsibilities and self-esteem are constraints experienced by women academics in pursuing research careers. Mentoring was found to facilitate research career development and improve levels of self-esteem. Improved self-esteem enables women to promote themselves within their institutions and in the research arena. The role of the head of department with mentoring as a key function emerged as an influential structure for the career advancement of women academics. However, these leadership positions are significantly dominated by men and this appears to affect the amount and nature of mentoring women academics receive.
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- Date Issued: 2015
- Authors: Obers, Nöelle Marie Thérèse
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: article , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/61357 , vital:28018 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1080/07294360.2015.1024632
- Description: This study was conducted at a small ‘research-led’ institution in South Africa. The data indicate that women produce less research than men and have low levels of professional self-esteem. Factors such as accrual of social capital, family responsibilities and self-esteem are constraints experienced by women academics in pursuing research careers. Mentoring was found to facilitate research career development and improve levels of self-esteem. Improved self-esteem enables women to promote themselves within their institutions and in the research arena. The role of the head of department with mentoring as a key function emerged as an influential structure for the career advancement of women academics. However, these leadership positions are significantly dominated by men and this appears to affect the amount and nature of mentoring women academics receive.
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- Date Issued: 2015
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