women employees in higher education

women employees in higher education

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 long been felt by women employees in higher education. In this context the emergence and subsequent consolidation of a nation wide movement for women and by women in the higher education system, conceived and initiated in 1997 was a pioneering attempt. The present paper attempts to examine this phenomenon of women?s collective in the academia to understand how/whether collaborative efforts by women in the higher education system has been able to foster and engender change.