ABSTRACT This qualitative study explores women academics’ perspectives and experiences working in a Pakistani university regarding their careers and how these progress. This is located in a northern city in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Rich narrative accounts were sought from ten women academics, combining semi-structured and informant-style interviewing. Their accounts focused on their academic, professional and family lives. Thematic analysis of these revealed a range of experiences pertaining to their academic and career progression and included factors that enabled them to work and others that served as barriers. The former included sustained family support received from parents, siblings and spouses, while the latter included inequality of opportunities in a male-dominated work environment, balancing home and work responsibilities, and lack of workplace facilities. Most of these women found it challenging to maintain balance between their home and workplace responsibilities. Nevertheless, our informants reportedly refused to be overwhelmed by the challenges they faced; instead, they displayed a great deal of resilience and displayed a spirit of defiance, optimism and efficacy to deal with challenges at the workplace and in their homes.

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巴基斯坦女性学术生涯的障碍和推动因素

摘要 这项定性研究探讨了女性学者在巴基斯坦大学工作的观点和经验，以及她们的职业发展方式。它位于开伯尔 - 普赫图赫瓦省的北部城市。结合半结构化和线人式采访，从十位女性学者那里寻找了丰富的叙述性叙述。他们的叙述侧重于他们的学业、职业和家庭生活。对这些问题的专题分析揭示了与他们的学业和职业发展有关的一系列经历，包括使他们能够工作的因素和其他成为障碍的因素。前者包括从父母、兄弟姐妹和配偶那里获得持续的家庭支持，而后者包括在男性主导的工作环境中机会不平等、平衡家庭和工作责任、和缺乏工作场所设施。这些女性中的大多数发现在家庭和工作职责之间保持平衡具有挑战性。尽管如此，据报道，我们的线人拒绝被他们所面临的挑战所淹没；相反，他们表现出极大的韧性，并表现出一种反抗、乐观和高效的精神来应对工作场所和家中的挑战。