pool intellectual resources

pool intellectual resources 

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. Increasingly the need for a women‟s collective in terms of networking, connecting and bonding in order to pool intellectual resources and create a power base has been felt by women employees in higher education both at the university and college levels.