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Female Academics and the Pandemic: The academic productivity of Indonesian female academics during the COVID-19 pandemic

13 Oktober 2021

Female Academics and the Pandemic: The academic productivity of Indonesian female academics during the COVID-19 pandemic

Project leader: Mrs. Zulfa Sakhiyya

Level of education and university: Master, Teaching English To Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), La Trobe University

Collaborating Organisations: -

Project Location: Semarang, Jakarta, and Malang

Activity Type: Academic research and research-related activities

Sector: Education and Training, Human Resource Development, Education Management

Project Rationale:

The project aims to explore the challenges encountered by 20 Indonesian female academics in social science and humanities in sustaining their academic productivity where the boundaries between home and work have been blurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. Academic publishing is highly correlated to issues of professional reputation and promotion, thus the low productivity of Indonesian female academics reveals a gender gap – an enduring social justice issue that needs to be addressed. While there has always been a gender gap in publishing, during the pandemic specifically, there has been a decline in submissions from women during lockdown periods (Flaherty, 2020). On the contrary, there has been an increase of 25% in men’s submissions (Viglione, 2020). The field of social science and humanities are central in this study because of its poor performance, as indicated by the low number of publications and thus low research capacity of local social scientists. The pandemic even highlights this marginality of social science and humanities within national research priorities where the majority of research funding is allocated to more applied and instrumental research in responding to the pandemic.

Project Beneficiaries:

20 selected Indonesian female academics in social science and humanities.

Priority Development Area:

Health Security

Link with Australian organisation:

University of Western Australia

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