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Moving SDG5 forward: women’s public engagement activities in higher education
Higher Education ( IF 3.947 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-08 , DOI: 10.1007/s10734-020-00597-0
Lavinia Hirsu , Zenaida Quezada-Reyes , Lamiah Hashemi

Universities play a critical role in the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals through the third mission, i.e. public engagement activities. However, female academics miss opportunities to be part of this mission because they are caught in many roles that prevent them from getting involved in the SDGs. In light of SDG5, Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, we conducted interviews with twenty female academics from Iran and the Philippines to investigate their aspirations, opportunities and experiences with public engagement activities. Our findings show that, while recent gender policies have enabled female academics to develop robust careers, their contributions beyond the walls of the university remain limited because of longstanding patriarchal structures, distrust in women’s professional expertise and unchanged systemic constraints. By bringing women’s engagement activities forward and supporting them in the delivery of the SDGs, we reframe current debates on women’s roles in academia. We argue that HE institutions may enhance their third mission and better achieve the targets of SDGs by valuing women’s work and facilitating their engagement activities that may lead to significant societal impact. We conclude our paper with a series of recommendations for policy and practice that support women’s journeys in academia.



中文翻译:

推进可持续发展目标5:妇女在高等教育中的公共参与活动

大学在通过第三项任务(即公众参与活动)实现可持续发展目标方面发挥着关键作用。但是,女学者由于参加许多角色而无法参加可持续发展目标,因此错过了参加这一使命的机会。根据可持续发展目标5,实现性别平等并赋予所有妇女和女孩权力,我们采访了来自伊朗和菲律宾的20名女性学者,以调查她们在公众参与活动中的愿望,机会和经验。我们的研究结果表明,尽管最近的性别政策已使女学者能够发展稳健的职业,但由于父权制的长期存在,对女性专业知识的不信任和系统性约束的不变,她们在大学之外的贡献仍然有限。通过推动妇女参与活动的发展并支持其实现可持续发展目标,我们重新界定了关于妇女在学术界中作用的当前辩论。我们认为,高等教育机构可以通过重视妇女的工作并促进她们的参与活动(可能导致重大的社会影响)来增强其第三项使命,并更好地实现可持续发展目标。在本文的结尾,我们提出了一系列政策和实践建议,以支持女性在学术界的发展。

更新日期:2020-09-08
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