Influential positions

 Influential positions 

The low visibility of women in the influential positions of administrative hierarchy has admittedly impacted the actual working conditions of women in the system and the need for stimulating change in the institutional policies and practices is now long overdue.Power structures are resistant to penetration or restructuring and as such the higher education system is no different in resisting structural changes that could shift the balance of male domination in the hierarchy or jostle the status quo.Women in the system therefore have had to struggle for an egalitarian system, which would recognize their worth and allow for positive change. Individual efforts by sensitized and gender empathetic women were puny fists pounding against an immovable wall of odds.