1st Edition
India Higher Education Report 2022 Women in Higher Education
This book studies the various dimensions of gender inequality that persist in higher education and employment in India. It presents an in-depth analysis of the complex challenges women face in higher education participation and in translating higher education opportunities into labour market success and into leadership positions, including in academia. It argues that despite substantial progress towards gender equality in enrolment, these inequalities act as barriers to realising the transformative role that higher education can have for women’s well-being and for the nation’s development. The volume looks at the issues that keep women from accessing the areas of their choice, and the challenges they face in leadership positions in higher education.
An important critique of higher education policy and planning, the volume will be of interest to teachers, students and researchers of education, public policy, political science and international relations, economics, feminism, women’s studies, gender studies, law and sociology. It will also be useful for academicians, policymakers and anyone interested in the study of gender in Indian Higher Education.
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Notes on contributors
Preface
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1 Women in higher education: an overview
N.V. VARGHESE AND NIDHI S. SABHARWAL
PART I
Women, education and development
2 Education, development and employment: the ongoing crisis in women’s employment and its revelations
N. NEETHA
PART II
Women’s access to HE and their educational inter-generational mobility
3 Women enrolment in higher education
SACHIDANAND SINHA AND BISWAJIT KAR
4 Access to higher education of women from disadvantaged groups and minorities 67
ABDUL SHABAN, ZINAT ABOLI AND S.K. MD MUSHARUDDIN
5 From gender parity to gender prism: looking beyond enrolment parity to explore gendered conditions of access to higher education in Haryana, India
EMILY F. HENDERSON, NIDHI S. SABHARWAL AND ANJALI THOMAS
6 Gender, inter-generational mobility and higher education
MANIKA BORA
PART III
Women’s field of study, representation in research programmes and career trajectories
7 Higher education, career and women entrepreneurship: between compulsion and choice
ANIRBAN SENGUPTA
8 Gendered academic trajectories through research and publication: influences and implications
RATNA M. SUDARSHAN AND ANJALI THOMAS
9 Women in science education and science careers in India
DEEPIKA BANSAL
PART IV
Women in academic profession and leadership positions in higher education
10 Structures of exclusion: promotion procedures and gender inequality in the professoriate in India
KARUNA CHANANA
11 Women in leadership in higher education: opportunities, challenges and the way forward
MADHULIKA KAUSHIK
12 Women in leadership in higher education: narratives from the field
GEETHA VENKATARAMAN
13 Women in leadership: exploring the barriers and facilitators in the Indian higher education sector
MEENAKSHI GANDHI
PART V
Gender-responsive policies and HEI strategies for inclusion on campuses
14 Implementing the sexual harassment law within higher education: a qualitative enquiry
JYOTHSNA BELLIAPPA AND S. AROKIA MARY
15 Gendering pedagogy, engendering practices: contemporary STEM education landscape
RUKMINI SEN
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Biography
N.V. Varghese is Vice Chancellor, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi, India, and the Founding Director of the Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE) at NIEPA. Formerly, he was Head, Governance and Management of Education at the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP/UNESCO), Paris. He has been a member of several International Boards/Committees and editorial Boards of Journals. N.V. Varghese is the Chief Editor of the Journal for Educational Planning and Administration (JEPA) NIEPA. He has directed several national and international research projects, has carried out research projects in several countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America and CIS regions and published several books and articles.
Nidhi S. Sabharwal is currently Associate Professor at the Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE), National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi, India. She has previously been the In-charge of CPRHE/NIEPA. She has also previously served as the Director at the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi. She has studied inter-group inequalities across human development indicators, focusing on the role of caste and gender-based discrimination in the market and non-market institutions. Her current research focuses on college readiness, student diversity, student success, gender and equity in higher education.
