HERS-SA (Higher Education Resource Services – South Africa) calls upon you to nominate South African Higher Education Women Leaders for its inaugural awards, aimed to be an annual event celebrating extraordinary women leaders making a positive impact in and outside their universities. The awards recognise
HERS-SA to host the Inaugural Higher Education Women Leaders Awards at the DoubleTree at Hilton Hotel, Woodstock, Cape Town on Thursday, 7th of September 2023. The awards aim to recognise the achievements of women who inspire, motivate and lead others to achieve their best, and
Being overlooked for promotion, racial discrimination and intimidating institutional environments are daunting challenges for women academics. Read more
A complex of practices exclude women in favour of men, even when the latter are mediocre. Why are there so few senior women in the academy? The excuses are well worn, if not by now downright offensive: there are not enough women academics; women
The experience of women in academics is often a journey of construction and a negotiation of identities, writes Dr Machika. The traditional ‘place’ of woman in higher education was in the role of teacher or secretary. With greater access to higher education over the past
Only a small percentage of SA’s professors are black women. The cards are stacked in men’s favour, says Professor Esther Ramani. That has to change. Read more
Patriarchal and racist institutional culture at universities must be challenged visibly, a conference for women working in higher education has heard. When a man is being sexist, call him out on it immediately and say: ‘No, I won’t let you talk to me like that’,”