The Struggle for Higher Education Gender Equity Policy in Afghanistan: Obstacles, Challenges and Achievements

Autor/inn/en	Hayward, Fred M.; Karim, Razia
Titel	The Struggle for Higher Education Gender Equity Policy in Afghanistan: Obstacles, Challenges and Achievements
Quelle	In: Education Policy Analysis Archives, 27 (2019) 139, (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1068-2341
Schlagwörter	Equal Education; Barriers; Foreign Countries; Females; Women Faculty; Educational Policy; College Environment; Gender Discrimination; Inclusion; Enrollment Trends; Violence; Safety; Sexual Harassment; College Housing; Stress Variables; Strategic Planning; Access to Education; Islam; College Students; Afghanistan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Weibliches Geschlecht; Frauenakademie; Weibliche Gelehrte; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Hochschulumwelt; Inklusion; Gewalt; Sicherheit; Sexuelle Belästigung; Studentenunterkunft; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Collegestudent
Abstract	The struggle for gender equity in Afghanistan has been a long and difficult one under war conditions. Nonetheless, amazing progress has been made both in transforming higher education and in improving the situation for women students and women faculty members over the last few years. What is particularly striking about this effort is the level of success in a very challenging environment. Part of the success, as we suggest, is a consequence of the focus on gender policy in higher education, which operates in an amazingly free environment. That has allowed the kind of analysis and discussion of traditional views about women to be examined and new policies put in place moving toward the MoHE goal of gender equity. Higher education has moved from a situation of virtually no women students, faculty, or staff in 2001 to 28% women students and 14% women faculty members in 2017. The atmosphere for women has changed remarkably with a Higher Education Gender Strategy to continue the process of change and a range of other policies and actions designed to create an open, comfortable, and equal environment for women. What is striking about these changes is that we think their success is due in large part to the narrow focus of change on higher education -- a process that probably would not have succeeded if tried at the national level. Nonetheless, it is a first step in expanding improved conditions for women broadly in Afghanistan and is suggestive of a successful approach for other countries with serious problems of gender discrimination. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Colleges of Education at Arizona State University and the University of South Florida. c/o Editor, USF EDU162, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620-5650. Tel: 813-974-3400; Fax: 813-974-3826; Web site: http://epaa.asu.edu
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01