Promoting a Gender Responsive Organizational Culture to Enhance Female Leadership: A Case of Two State Universities in Zimbabwe

Chitsamatanga, Bellita Banda

doi:10.31901/24566802.2018/31.1-3.1999

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“…Merit-based selections in Indonesia remain hampered by favoritism towards men as leaders and discrimination towards women with reproductive responsibilities. The barriers for women seeking advancement to senior roles is consistent with studies internationally, where combinations of both visible and invisible barriers persist (Xiang and Ingram 2017;Wesarat and Mathew 2017;Ndebele 2018;Amponsaa-Asenso 2018;Chitsamatanga et al 2018).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 77%

Indonesian Women in Public Service Leadership: A Rapid Review

2019

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Masculinist contours have legitimized male domination in Indonesia’s upper public service ranks. However, some women have managed to crack the glass ceiling. A systematic search was undertaken of seven academic databases and the Google Scholar search engine to identify facilitative features of women’s career advancement through Indonesia’s echelon ranks. Fourteen articles, representing nine studies, were identified. While policy initiatives exist to increase women’s representation and career advancement, studies consistently identified little application to practice. Patterns across the studies located women’s career advancement as an individual concern and showed that women wanting careers were expected to manage the double burden of productive and reproductive life, obtain permissions from husbands and extended family, and adopt masculine leadership traits to garner colleagues’ support. Barriers frequently outweigh opportunities for career advancement; these including entrenched homo-sociability asserting that men make better leaders. Consequently, the blocking of women’s opportunities invoked personal disappointments, resulting in women’s public denial of their leadership ambitions.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 77%

Indonesian Women in Public Service Leadership: A Rapid Review

2019

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“…However, basic internet accessibility is not a demanding asset to be supplied across the medical facilities in Syria especially with the accumulating evidence about the effectiveness of asynchronous virtual training on research related skills [31,37]. On the other hand, gender inequities in medicine have been widely identi ed in literature with slower academic progress for women faculty members compared to men [44]. Therefore, more attention should be paid to gender equality in this challenging eld of medicine, especially as the attitudes towards research in our sample were comparable between females and males in contrast to the higher attitudes found among males in other studies [45,46].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors Influencing Research Productivity among Syrian Medical Professionals amidst Conflict: a Case-Control Study

Hanafi,

Kheder,

Sabouni

et al. 2024

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Background: While medical research productivity is rapidly accelerating in the world generally, it remains poor in many third-world countries due to many factors including the lack of training and the brain drain of healthcare professionals. Syria had been showing a slow upward trend until the war broke out and severely hindered academic growth and productivity. A continued lack of data on the scale of, and factors behind, this phenomenon needs to be addressed to better understand the current academic productivity and inform educational policies and resource allocation. Additionally, one of the challenges is the small sample sizes of previous cross-sectional studies that evaluated the perspectives of Syrian academics to disentangle the factors that paved the way for these published healthcare workers to pursue research. Therefore, we present a case-control study that targeted this specific population and compared its characteristics and self-reported perceptions to matching controls without previous research involvement. Methods: We first identified Syrian early-career published authors in the healthcare field through an extensive search of PubMed and Google scholar. The questionnaire was subsequently publicly published to recruit matching controls: unpublished researchers and participants with no prior research contributions. The questionnaire covered participants’ research contributions, alongside their self-assessed knowledge, attitudes, and barriers towards research. Results: Six-hundred-sixteen participants were recruited. Their knowledge, attitudes, and perceived barriers explained 46% and 34% of the variability in research involvement and publication, respectively (P < 0.001). Getting involved in and publishing research studies associated with higher research-related knowledge and attitudes (P < 0.001). Respondents’ assessment of research-related barriers and their academic scores did not differ between cases and controls. Superior research-related knowledge and attitudes were associated with male gender, higher English competency, and better internet connectivity. Meanwhile, extracurricular training and mentors’ support were associated with more positive research-related attitudes and less perceived barriers. Conclusions: Research productivity of early-career medical professionals in Syria exhibits a positive correlation with their knowledge and favorable attitudes towards medical research. Noteworthy, demographic variations are linked to disparities in research-related knowledge and motivation. In conclusion, these results suggest a potential avenue for enhancement through concentrated efforts on improving extracurricular training interventions and mentors’ support.

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“…Affirmative action provides role models since the successful women encourage and motivate other women to be confidences in knowing that excellences can be achieved [14]. This was supported by studies conducted by Openjuru [15] and Choge [16] who said that affirmative action promote diversity and encourage public welfare for common [17] good by increasing opportunities for previously disadvantage group including women.…”

Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The studies done by Kagoda [9] said that some people example women are obtaining rewards to opportunities that exist in short supply and ought to be given to other people such as men or who are perceived or more deserving of the rewards or better able to famous legal challenges to affirmative action programs in education [18,19,20]. However [21] argued that affirmative action constituted reverse discriminative that lower the odds of admission for better qualified leaders. They also said in which the policy creates a mismatch between the skills of the leader and the abilities required for success.…”

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Analysis of Affirmative Actions and Gender Equality in the Policy of Education Institutions: The Selected Cases in Tanzanian Universities

Shemahonge,

Kyando

2023

ARJASS

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Aim: Gender inequality in leadership positions is a tragedy in Tanzanian Universities. Thus, universities are resorting to developing gender policies to address the imbalance between males and females in leadership positions. Nevertheless, it is unclear at this time what do policies say about the issue of gender imbalance in leadership and what affirmative measures the policies propose to take to fix it. Methods: This research used thematic analysis technique to analyze four universities gender policies in order to understand the embedded affirmative actions aimed at reducing gender inequality in leadership positions in universities. Results: The affirmative actions identified in the policies related to recruitment, outreach activities, special entry and scholarships for girls, searching leaders and capacity building and support. Conclusion: The study concluded that gender policies just include the intention to take affirmative actions against gender inequality but it is unclear from the policies whether the actions were implemented and how effective the actions are.

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Promoting a Gender Responsive Organizational Culture to Enhance Female Leadership: A Case of Two State Universities in Zimbabwe

Cited by 5 publications

References 33 publications

Indonesian Women in Public Service Leadership: A Rapid Review

Indonesian Women in Public Service Leadership: A Rapid Review

Factors Influencing Research Productivity among Syrian Medical Professionals amidst Conflict: a Case-Control Study

Analysis of Affirmative Actions and Gender Equality in the Policy of Education Institutions: The Selected Cases in Tanzanian Universities

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