institutional policies and practices

institutional policies and practices 

The increasing influx of women to jobs in universities and colleges as a result of feminization of certain jobs has led to a clustering of women in the lower rungs of the higher education system, thus generating so-called „pink ghettoes‟ of women educationists who have been unable to break the glass ceiling of prejudice and patriarchal assumptions on account of different factors that need to be investigated. 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.