- Title
- Career success for women academics in higher education: choices and challenges
- Creator
- Obers, Nöelle Marie Thérèse
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- article
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/61346
- Identifier
- vital:28017
- Identifier
- 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.
- Format
- 16 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- South African Journal of Higher Education, Obers, N., 2014. Career success for women academics in higher education: choices and challenges: Part 2: HELTASA 2012 Special Section. South African Journal of Higher Education, 28(3), pp.1107-1122, South African Journal of Higher Education 28 vol. 3 no. 1107 1122 2014 1011-3487
- Rights
- South African Journal of Higher Education
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the South African Journal of Higher Education Open Access Policy
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