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Sakhiyya, Zulfa; Fitzgerald, Tanya; Rakhmani, Inaya; Eliyanah, Evi; Farida, Alief Noor – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges to higher education. This paper explores the challenges Indonesian female academics encountered during the pandemic in which the boundaries between home and work were further blurred. Accordingly, the gender gap was further widened as unpaid and unacknowledged academic and domestic work…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Women Faculty
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Fitzgerald, Tanya – International Perspectives on Higher Education Research (MS), 2012
The metaphors of the ivory tower and ivory basement are used in this chapter to reflect how many women understand and experience the academy. The ivory tower signifies a place that is protected, a place of privilege and authority and a place removed from the outside world (and consequently the rigours of the market place). The ivory tower, by…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Figurative Language, Women Faculty, Power Structure
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Fitzgerald, Tanya – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2007
The historiography of women's higher education has almost exclusively charted women's admission to universities, institutional responses to increasing numbers of women students and women's struggles to claim a presence as academics and administrators. Less attention has however been paid to the history and agency of women professors who were…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Females, Foreign Countries, College Faculty