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Andrea McGill-O'Rourke; Elizabeth Allan – Community College Review, 2025
Objective/Research Question: Research indicates that work-life integration is linked with career satisfaction for women administrators in higher education. This study focused on midlevel women leaders who are an essential component of higher education organizations and asked the question: how do mid-level women leaders in rural community colleges…
Descriptors: Work Life Expectancy, Middle Management, Women Administrators, Community Colleges
Wlodarsky, Rachel L. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
This article describes the disintegration of boundaries of work and family life due to the COVID-19 pandemic and makes visible the chaotic state in which academic and other professional mothers were forced to function. She discusses the struggle to separate personal from professional life, social isolation, lack of motivation and resource…
Descriptors: Reflection, Family Work Relationship, COVID-19, Pandemics
Emily M. Gray; And Pasley; Mindy Blaise; Jacqueline Ullman; Emma Fishwick – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
This paper offers an analysis of data from the second phase of a project entitled "Understanding and Addressing Everyday Sexisms in Australian Universities," which involved interviewing key stakeholders with an understanding of and/or experiences of 'Everyday Sexisms' within the academy. The paper demonstrates how women understand…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Foreign Countries, Universities, Diversity
Sarikaya, Hakan Serhan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2022
Art is an educational activity that can be done in any era or by any generation. Theatre art, which has contributed to the individual and social development of individuals since early times, has had a privileged place in the world of education. New approaches in the science of theatre and pedagogy have emerged in the current age and substantially…
Descriptors: Females, Employed Women, Foreign Countries, Art Education
Gao, Xuexuan; Min, Weifang – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2023
In the context of the decline in working-age population and exhaustion of demographic dividend in China, how to increase the supply of labor has become an issue critical to economic development. Optimizing preschool education system and enhancing the accessibility of high-quality and low-cost pre-primary schooling help free married women from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Access to Education, Participation
Mary Cathy Waguespack – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to present, through interviews, the experiences of women adult learners in higher education with full-time jobs and family responsibilities. The results illustrated how these women adjusted to higher education, being older in classes, prioritizing school, work, and family, and having time…
Descriptors: Employed Women, College Students, Mothers, Family Work Relationship
Sarah Pryor – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2025
This study considered how hybrid working impacts the management of menopause symptoms in HE Professional Services (PS) employees. The evidence suggested that work was affected by menopause symptoms and poor workplace control increased symptom severity. Participants adapted their working environment and employed compensatory actions to perform…
Descriptors: Females, Employed Women, Physiology, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Chelsea Elizabeth Pratt – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Women of Color student affairs staff experience the nexus of gendered and racialized traumatization regularly in their institutional environments; yet, their experiences are underrepresented in both student affairs leadership and in scholarly literature. Furthermore, identity-conscious, trauma-aware supervision is a promising protective strategy…
Descriptors: Females, Student Personnel Workers, Trauma, Work Environment
Pordelan, Nooshin; Hosseinian, Simin; Heydari, Hamid; Khalijian, Sadaf; Khorrami, Mohammad – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Nowadays, women constitute a considerable part of employees in the society that according to the multiple roles that they play (mother, wife, employee), more flexibility is needed in their career affairs. This study aimed to investigate the effects of teleworking using the Internet on married working women working in educational settings…
Descriptors: Females, Employed Women, Teleworking, Internet
Melissa Ann Tinker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The attrition of working mothers in technology workplaces is a pressing issue that demands attention from IT, HR, and D&I leaders who strive to forge inclusive environments within predominantly male industries. Through this study, I illuminated the multifaceted challenges these working mothers faced within the technology sector, exploring…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Employed Parents, Employed Women
Chikasie Ruth Ikpeama – SAGE Open, 2024
The growing number of working mothers, dual career couples, and working single parents raises concerns about the impact of work stress on family lifestyles and their ability to balance work and family obligations. The aim of this study is to examine the role of social workers in promoting work-life balance among working mothers at the University…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Employed Parents, Family Work Relationship
Stephen Richard Billett; Anthony Leow; Anh Hai Le – Professional and Practice-based Learning, 2024
This book elaborates on the project of continuing education and training (CET), its purposes, practices and prospects for future models and approaches. As such, it also seeks to elaborate the needs for a means by which this important educational sector can achieve its goals both now, and in the near future. Often seen as a supplementary or…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Adult Education, Employment Potential, Capacity Building
Liana Christin Landivar; William J. Scarborough; Leah Ruppanner; Caitlyn M. Collins; Lloyd Rouse – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2023
Public schools in the United States saw unprecedented reductions to in-person instruction during the 2020-2021 school year. Using the Elementary School Operating Status database, the American Community Survey, and the Current Population Survey, we show remote instruction was associated with reduced employment among mothers compared with fathers…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Mothers, Distance Education, COVID-19
Groves, Tracie – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2021
Women make up almost half of the workforce, but only a small percentage are ever promoted above middle management (Zarya). Although more women are working now than ever before, the numbers of high-level management positions still are primarily occupied by men, and the reason for this imbalance is still unclear. Why are women not able to break that…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Mentors, Labor Force, Employed Women
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