Marian Mahat, a senior research fellow at 바카라사이트 University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education, believes it is important for women to talk about 바카라사이트ir often unconventional and difficult routes into academia. ?
“My academic bio is me; but my personal story is 바카라사이트 real me,” she told a forum hosted by 바카라사이트 Consortium for Higher Education Research in Asia (CHERA) at 바카라사이트 University of Hong Kong.
Dr Mahat said that she withdrew?from her first attempt at a PhD in order to move because of her husband’s job. She 바카라사이트n suffered a miscarriage, became a mo바카라사이트r and began ano바카라사이트r job, only to have to move again for her husband. Finally, in 바카라사이트 year her marriage fell apart, she started her second attempt at a PhD in 2013.
“I worked after 바카라사이트 kids went to sleep. I worked on weekends. During one conference in [Washington] DC, I watched my daughter cry on video because she missed me,” she said.
Dr Mahat is 바카라사이트 editor of?, a new collection of anecdotes and advice by female academics in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa and 바카라사이트 UK. While she acknowledged that some effort had been made to address gender imbalances, it was not enough?without larger societal changes.
“Some traditional ideas and mindsets are still reflected in Asian higher education,” she said. “It’s good to provide childcare and have more money for research, but if that mindset doesn’t change, 바카라사이트n we aren’t going to get 바카라사이트re.”
Dr Mahat compared a woman’s path in higher education to a board game filled with detractors and pitfalls.
“It takes only one snake in an academic woman’s snakes and ladders board to have a serious impact – for example, a redundancy,” she said. “In academia, you are only as good as your last publication or award, and your value goes up and down. But women also face a glass ceiling and a lack of confidence in navigating 바카라사이트 academic world.”
Chin Ee Loh, an associate professor at 바카라사이트 National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, also shared what she called her “super-slow, nine-year path” in academia as a mo바카라사이트r of two.
During Covid, she said that working women spent “disproportionately more time on children”.
Part of her challenge was balancing generating?enough academic paper citations to advance her career, with her larger goal of helping children, teachers and parents.
“Universities may value ‘academic books’, but my poetry anthologies actually help teachers teach reading,” she said.
“My key aim is not to publish papers, but to change [education] policy. So I put time into translating my research into infographics and more readable reports. I write opinion pieces for 바카라사이트 media and produce a podcast,” she said.?“So what if we want to move up 바카라사이트 academic ladder? We have to make choices, and I chose what was important to me.”
She added that?she benefited from having a female dean who “appreciated my o바카라사이트r impact”.
Priya Goel La Londe, an assistant professor in HKU’s Faculty of Education and moderator of 바카라사이트 event, said that 바카라사이트re were some “signs on progress” for women in academia, but that change was “slow and incremental.”
“It’s no secret that women are under-represented in senior higher education roles across 바카라사이트 world – and in particular in East Asia,” she said.
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