IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/rnd/arjsds/v3y2012i12p397-404.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Explanatory Study of Women Working in the Management of Universities

Author

Listed:
  • Syeda Qudsia Batool
  • Hassan Raza

Abstract

The paper aims to investigate the gender in higher education andcareer experience of women academicians to understand the factors that undermine their career progression. The objectives of the study are to overview the existing situation of women and men in universities and to identify the barriers that cause the underepresentation of women. Both primary and secondary data was used in the study.Questionnaire (Quantitative method )was used to collect the data. The sample of the study consists of 120 women academician of three universities. The sample universities were AIOU, AJ&K and FJWU. Data was analysed through percentage,tabulation and graphs. The paper examined the factors such as work/family conflict, exclusion of women from policy formulation,facilities provided by organization, attitude of male superior and colleagues and difficulties to exercise authority over male.The findings show that work/family conflict and difficulties to exercise authority, exclusion of women from policy formulation are negatively impact on women’s career progression.This study provides an opportunity to develop an insight into the issue of women’s representation in academic and administrative positions in universities. The findings of this study may provide information to different working organizations. There are different projects and programs of ministry of education, ministry of women development. This research would be beneficial both for public and private universities. The study might serve to strengthen efforts to implement equal opportunities for women in the universities and encourage women to put themselves forward for appointment to management positions.

Suggested Citation

  • Syeda Qudsia Batool & Hassan Raza, 2012. "Explanatory Study of Women Working in the Management of Universities," Journal of Social and Development Sciences, AMH International, vol. 3(12), pages 397-404.
    • Handle: RePEc:rnd:arjsds:v:3:y:2012:i:12:p:397-404
    DOI: 10.22610/jsds.v3i12.728
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ojs.amhinternational.com/index.php/jsds/article/view/728/728
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://ojs.amhinternational.com/index.php/jsds/article/view/728
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22610/jsds.v3i12.728?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. John Benson & Vimolwan Yukongdi, 2005. "Asian Women Managers: Participation, Barriers and Future Prospects," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(2), pages 283-291, June.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Mwafaq M. Dandan & Ana Paula Marques, 2017. "Higher Education Leadership and Gender Gap in Jordan," Asian Development Policy Review, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 5(3), pages 131-139, September.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Low, Daniel C.M. & Roberts, Helen & Whiting, Rosalind H., 2015. "Board gender diversity and firm performance: Empirical evidence from Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 35(PA), pages 381-401.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:rnd:arjsds:v:3:y:2012:i:12:p:397-404. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Muhammad Tayyab (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://ojs.amhinternational.com/index.php/jsds .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.