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Sue Cronshaw; Peter Stokes; Alistair McCulloch – Higher Education Quarterly, 2024
This article contributes to the growing evidence based on well-being in doctoral study. It draws on 35 qualitative, in-depth interviews to explore how the well-being of an understudied group--working doctoral student mothers--is affected when undertaking part-time PhDs. While there is a growing literature on the research student experience and an…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Well Being, Mothers, Part Time Students
Carrianne M. Cicero – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Women bring diversity, innovation, and leadership to higher education institutions, which is often disregarded (Renn & Hughes, 2004). This participatory action research study explores women's experiences before, during, and after the COVID-19 component using a feminist lens. This study examines the obstacles facing women in the workplace that…
Descriptors: Burnout, Barriers, Employed Women, COVID-19
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Johnson, Joan Marie – History of Education Quarterly, 2007
At the turn of the century approximately a thousand white Southern women braved the consternation of friends and sometimes family, and traveled hundreds of miles to attend the best Northern women's colleges for an education unavailable to them in the South. For many, the experience was revolutionary: they developed self-confidence, independence,…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Higher Education, Single Sex Colleges