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Horta, Hugo; Tang, Li – Higher Education Quarterly, 2023
This article explores the experiences of male and female academics in China's higher education system concerning career progression and examines how they perceive the challenges faced by the opposite gender. Our analysis of interviews with 40 academics from a research university revealed that academics' experience of career progression is informed…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, College Faculty, Career Development, Work Environment
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Nartgun, Senay Sezgin; Tunc, Emine; Ergun, Elif – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2020
This study aims to articulate the views of women academicians regarding the difficulties of being a woman academician and the support of a spouse. The research was conducted with case study design. Twenty married women academicians participated in the study. The results of the study demonstrate that women academicians experience societal, family…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, College Faculty, Spouses, Family Work Relationship
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Heijstra, Thamar M.; Einarsdóttir, Þorgerður; Pétursdóttir, Gyða M.; Steinþórsdóttir, Finnborg S. – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
In the labour market women's jobs have frequently been conceptually and literally tied to housework and hence thought of as unskilled and therefore undervalued. Although academic institutions have undergone changes, the fact that women still carry the main responsibility for domestic and caring tasks continues to follow them into the academic work…
Descriptors: Housework, Labor Market, Gender Differences, Caring