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E-book Navigating Academia : Women’s Stories of Success and Struggle - A Call to Action

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he book “Navigating Academia: Women’s Stories of Success and Struggle” contains powerful stories about career journeys of women in academia, for women, by women, and with women. Although a range of studies have been conducted on gender equality, critical knowledge gaps remain on gender disparities in academia requiring views, experiences, and insights of women who are affected the most, i.e. women with intersecting identities. This book provides an opportunity to obtain first person accounts of Black African women experiences in navigating academia which can serve as a rich source of knowledge towards closing critical gaps and guiding practical strategies for women’s recruitment, retention, and career advancement in academia. The women in this book share courageous career choices made amidst seemingly insurmountable situations, challenges experienced, strategies used to overcome challenges, and lessons learnt. This book is also an endeavour to pay it forward by offering advice to inspire and empower fellow women in their career advancement based on past experiences and insights, especially the next generation of academics. The book offers a platform for validating the experiences and heeding the voices of African women who are hardly given an audience in higher echelons. The rich lived experiences provided in this book have implications for attracting, advancing, and retaining women including women with intersecting identities, in academia. The process that was followed in compiling the stories of the women in this book was iterative, consultative, and supportive to bring out key messages from the unique journey of each woman. The author approached remarkable women with whom she had a special relationship to share their stories in a personalised manner, incorporating their candid expressions and reflections to learn more about how they stories by sharing her own career journey. Her story is subdivided into three chapters. The author does not detail her biography in the same manner as she did with the rest of the women in the respective chapters because her full biography has been detailed at the end of the book. The third section, which is central to the book, focuses on the stories of success and struggle of fifteen (15) courageous women known to the author. Journeys of women are often under-studied and overlooked. The author shares the chronicles of journeys of resilience to the top by these phenomenal women of prominence, good standing, and authority from six African countries, namely Botswana, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. These tenacious women were drawn from diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and related fields mainly across academic and related institutions to reach a wider audience including data science, environmental health, epidemiology, mathematical statistics, medical virology, medicine, physiology, public health, public health management, and behavioural/social sciences.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

331.4 PHA n

Penerbit

South Africa : UJ Press., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

214 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781776447497

Klasifikasi

331.4

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Women Workers

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