Restore, reform but do not transform: The gender politics of higher education in Africa
| dc.contributor.author | Mama, Amina | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-12-13T08:26:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-12-13T08:26:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2017-12-12T10:00:24Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper uses gender analysis to reflect on the emergence and development of higher education in Africa. The available statistical picture indicates that despite the absence of formal exclusions, women's entry into higher educational institutions—as students and as employees—has remained slow and uneven, suggesting the need to look beyond the numbers. The overall pattern of exclusion and marginalization is true for both administrative and academic tracks but is at its most extreme for senior academic and research positions. The persistence of extreme gender inequality is most easily and often attributed to external social and familial factors. Here, however, it is argued that there is sufficient evidence to suggest that, despite institutional and managerial claims of administrative neutrality, the institutional and intellectual cultures of African institutions are, in fact, permeated with sexual and gender dynamics. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Mama, A. (2003). Restore, reform but do not transform: The gender politics of higher education in Africa. <i>Journal of Higher Education in Africa</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26588 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Mama, Amina "Restore, reform but do not transform: The gender politics of higher education in Africa." <i>Journal of Higher Education in Africa</i> (2003) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26588 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Mama, A. (2003). Restore, reform but do not transform: The gender politics of higher education in Africa. Journal of Higher Education in Africa/Revue de l'enseignement supérieur en Afrique, 101-125. Chicago | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - AU - Mama, Amina AB - This paper uses gender analysis to reflect on the emergence and development of higher education in Africa. The available statistical picture indicates that despite the absence of formal exclusions, women's entry into higher educational institutions—as students and as employees—has remained slow and uneven, suggesting the need to look beyond the numbers. The overall pattern of exclusion and marginalization is true for both administrative and academic tracks but is at its most extreme for senior academic and research positions. The persistence of extreme gender inequality is most easily and often attributed to external social and familial factors. Here, however, it is argued that there is sufficient evidence to suggest that, despite institutional and managerial claims of administrative neutrality, the institutional and intellectual cultures of African institutions are, in fact, permeated with sexual and gender dynamics. DA - 2003 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Journal of Higher Education in Africa LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2003 T1 - Restore, reform but do not transform: The gender politics of higher education in Africa TI - Restore, reform but do not transform: The gender politics of higher education in Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26588 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26588 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Mama A. Restore, reform but do not transform: The gender politics of higher education in Africa. Journal of Higher Education in Africa. 2003; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26588. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | Journal of Higher Education in Africa | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.codesria.org/spip.php?rubrique54 | |
| dc.title | Restore, reform but do not transform: The gender politics of higher education in Africa | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
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