Gender inequality in academia from the perspective of the dialogical self: beyond ‘autonomous men’ and ‘relational women’

Ghaempanah, Babak; Khapova, Svetlana N.

doi:10.1080/09540253.2023.2242367

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“…However, studies worldwide report that significant numbers of women and girls are denied access to education programmes in many penitentiary facilities (Huber, 2015;Korzh, 2021;Ryder, 2020). Thus, gender inequality in education is still an issue in many institutions in many countries (Ghaempanah & Khapova, 2023). The situation is even worse in some African countries where huge disparities between male and female offenders' educational provision have been reported (e.g.…”

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Why Not Us? Experiences of Incarcerated Women on Education Access in Malawi Prisons

Kajawo,

Johnson

2024

Adv. J Social Sci.

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Many incarcerated women worldwide have low education profiles that cause them to commit petty criminal offences among others. Thus, education access to incarcerated people, including women can be undoubtedly an indispensable strategy for their rehabilitation. However, education access could still be patriarchal and not accessible to women in prisons. Guided by radical feminist theory, this study employed a qualitative narrative research approach to explore from incarcerated women and correctional officers how education was made accessible at two prison facilities in Malawi. The key finding was that there was social injustice in the provision of education to offenders. Education access was monopolised by male inmates. Women were denied access to education even though they needed and demanded it since authorities preferred to use the available inadequate educational resources to provide education to only male inmates. It was recommended that gender equality needed to be exercised in the provision of education opportunities in prisons. Where resources are scarce, at least similar educational resources should be made equally and equitably accessible to both male and female inmates.

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