Gender Disparity an Issue in Academia - South Africa

While laws and polices were in place to ensure women's success in various fields, South Africa's academic landscape remains male-dominated with a meager three females serving as Vice-Chancellors of universities.

Science and Technology Minister Nalendi Pandor decried this situation in her address to the Higher Education Resource Service Academy conference held in Woodstock, Cape Town yesterday.

"A great deal of work remains to be done in the higher education sector. The traditional social stereotypes that influence women's progress in higher education remain in place and require dedicated and strategic attention.

"Decades of struggle by women intellectuals have shown that focused and well crafted joint strategies are the best means of reversing the discrimination that continues to be a part of higher education," said Pandor.

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