A Sustainable Strategic Plan for Gender Equity in Higher Education: A Developing Country Perspective
This paper focuses on examining the reasons behind gender inequity in Papua New Guinea (PNG) Higher Education, the implications of this inequity to women's development in PNG, but more importantly, the critical role Higher Education will play in helping to alleviate gender inequity. The first part of the article introduces the PNG’s historical context of the status of women, the current inequities and the rationale for the push for gender equity. The second part reviews and analyses the common obstacles faced by females in Higher Education of PNG and highlights general gender enrolment trends in the last eight years (1997-2005). The last part of the article recommends some strategies to address this inequity in helping to alleviate these gender barriers in the light of the author’ s research.
Keywords: Gender Equity, Sustainable Education, Cultural Competence Frameworks, Gemder Inclusive Frameworls, Strenght Based Frameworks
Ms Velepat Tuaru
Lecturer, The School of Education, The University of Goroka
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years in Tertiary (universities): areas of teaching are Teacher Education, Gender
Studies in Education, Sociology. Her main concern is to fight for women's rights and
access to education, accepting that strategies for gender equity need to involve the
education and participation of both men and women, particularly relevant in her maledominated
culture. Her current research examines gender equity in three areas:
policies/ practices/ curriculum to determine how inclusive the above areas are in
tertiary institutions in Papua New Guinea. She is currently an AusAid funded
postgraduate student at the University of Queensland
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