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Measuring Gender Bias in Student Satisfaction in Higher Education: A Cross-Department Study
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Francielle Marques; Davinia Hernández-Leo; Carlos Castillo – Cogent Education, 2024
Student satisfaction surveys are widely accepted for measuring the quality of students' overall experience with the received teaching and informing the design of improvements in higher education. However, several studies have shown that these surveys have biases that may lead to discrimination or unfair decisions against female academics. Yet it…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Student Surveys, Student Experience, College Students
"Follow Your Research Career or Choose Your Family": Female Language Teachers' Agency in Their Research Engagement
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Cuong Huy Pham; Nguyen Ngoc Thao Chau; Khanh Hoang Ngoc Nguyen – Cogent Education, 2023
Despite their growing prominence in academia, female researchers have encountered a number of challenges emerging from their household, institutional and societal obligations. More specially, studies investigating female academics' pursuits of research and publication from a situated perspective remain relatively limited. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Females, Women Faculty, Teacher Researchers, College Faculty
Gender-Based Pedagogical Inequity: Exploring Faculty Perspectives in Ethiopia
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Atota B. Halkiyo; Meseret F. Hailu; Breanne E. Lott – Cogent Education, 2023
In Ethiopia, women's access to higher education is a priority for many higher education leaders. Moreover, education access and participation are often measured quantitatively through enrollment, retention, and graduation rates. Often overlooked, however, are qualitative outcomes related to gender. To address this gap in the literature, we explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Bias, Equal Education, Womens Education
Adult Female Learners' Perceptions of and Experiences with Distance Education at University of Ghana
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Ama Adu-Marfo; Isaac Biney; Moses Kumi Asamoah – Cogent Education, 2024
This paper highlights adult female learners' perception and experiences with blended distance education (DE) program in the University of Ghana. It specifically investigates female students' experiences with male and female tutors' tutoring styles, learner support services, the use of educational technology as well as the extent of the…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Adult Students, Student Attitudes
Unfettering the Ball and Chain of Gender Discrimination: Gendered Experiences of Senior STEM Women in Ghana
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Boateng, Fred Kofi – Cogent Education, 2017
Gender disparities are rife in Ghana and its educational sector. Despite the plethora of research on gender disparities in Ghana's education system, there is no coverage on gender disparities in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields in Ghana. The paper's purpose of the article was to examine the experiences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Gender Bias, STEM Education
Becoming and Being Academic Women: Perspectives from the Maldives
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Maxwell, T. W.; Mohamed, Mizna; Mohamed, Naashia; Naseer, Badhoora; Zahir, Aminath; Nasheeda, Aminath – Cogent Education, 2015
This exploratory study aimed at understanding the role of women teaching in a university in the Maldives is a first of its kind. The many studies of academic women in Western countries guided the 20 semi-structured interviews. The data were thematically analysed with the assistance of NVivo. Becoming an academic appeared to be an independent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Women Faculty, Females, College Faculty