Gender responsive multidisciplinary doctoral training program: the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) experience

Autor: Anne M. Khisa, Peter Ngure, Evelyn Gitau, Justus Musasiah, Eunice Kilonzo, Emmanuel Otukpa, Marta Vicente-Crespo, Catherine Kyobutungi, Alex Ezeh, Sharon Fonn
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Global Health Action, Vol 12, Iss 1 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1654-9880
16549716
DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2019.1670002
Popis: Doctoral training has increasingly become the requirement for faculty in institutions of higher learning in Africa. Africa, however, still lacks sufficient capacity to conduct research, with just 1.4% of all published research authored by African researchers. Similarly, women in Sub-Saharan Africa only constitute 30% of the continent’s researchers, and correspondingly publish little research. Challenging these gendered inequities requires a gender responsive doctoral program that caters for women’s gender roles that likely affect their enrollment in, and completion of, doctoral programs. In this article, we describe a public and population health multidisciplinary doctoral training program – CARTA and its approach to supporting women. This has resulted in women’s enrollment in the program equaling men’s and similar throughput rates. CARTA has achieved this by meeting women’s practical needs around childbearing and childrearing and we argue that this has produced some outcomes that challenge gender norms, such as fathers being child minders in support of their wives and creating visible female role models.
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