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Women leaders in Pakistani academia: Challenges and opportunities
Asian Journal of Women's Studies ( IF 0.661 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-03 , DOI: 10.1080/12259276.2021.1924481
Rabia Ali 1 , Asma Rasheed 1
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ABSTRACT Research on women’s leadership has been largely male-centric and has used masculine characteristics to measure and evaluate such roles. This paper aims to unveil women’s leadership in Pakistani universities. Using a feminist perspective, we argue that female academics encounter multiple barriers at work. The data for this paper was collected via in-depth interviews with twelve women leaders from public universities in Islamabad, Pakistan to understand their experiences. Our findings show how our research participants struggled in order to navigate their careers. This paper documents organizational factors such as male-dominated networks, stereotypes and personal factors, for instance, time spent on familial roles that may hamper their positions. Clearly, they encountered constraints in reaching top management levels and sustaining these. However, in order to achieve such positions these women acknowledged the support of family, their high socioeconomic status and effective networking and mentoring relations with peers. The insights gained by this study illustrate how they navigated the male-centric realm of higher education and these should be useful for those who aspire to be leaders. Our research should also offer some potential strategies for closing the gender gap in universities by facilitating women to assume leadership positions.

中文翻译:

巴基斯坦学术界的女性领袖:挑战与机遇

摘要关于女性领导力的研究主要以男性为中心,并使用男性特征来衡量和评估这些角色。本文旨在揭示女性在巴基斯坦大学中的领导地位。使用女权主义的观点,我们认为女性学者在工作中遇到了多重障碍。本文的数据是通过对来自巴基斯坦伊斯兰堡公立大学的 12 名女性领导人的深入访谈收集的,以了解她们的经历。我们的研究结果显示了我们的研究参与者如何在职业生涯中挣扎。本文记录了诸如男性主导的网络、刻板印象和个人因素等组织因素,例如,花在可能妨碍其职位的家庭角色上的时间。显然,他们在达到最高管理层和维持这些方面遇到了限制。然而,为了获得这些职位,这些女性承认家庭的支持、她们的高社会经济地位以及与同龄人的有效网络和指导关系。这项研究获得的见解说明了他们如何驾驭以男性为中心的高等教育领域,这些对于那些渴望成为领导者的人来说应该是有用的。我们的研究还应该提供一些潜在的策略,通过促进女性担任领导职务来缩小大学中的性别差距。这项研究获得的见解说明了他们如何驾驭以男性为中心的高等教育领域,这些对于那些渴望成为领导者的人来说应该是有用的。我们的研究还应该提供一些潜在的策略,通过促进女性担任领导职务来缩小大学中的性别差距。这项研究获得的见解说明了他们如何驾驭以男性为中心的高等教育领域,这些对于那些渴望成为领导者的人来说应该是有用的。我们的研究还应该提供一些潜在的策略,通过促进女性担任领导职务来缩小大学中的性别差距。
更新日期:2021-04-03
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