Zulfa Sakhiyya, Tanya Fitzgerald, Inaya Rakhmani, Evi Eliyanah, Alief Noor Farida
The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges to higher education. This paper explores the challenges Indonesian female academics encountered during the pandemic in which the boundaries between home and work were further blurred. Accordingly, the gender gap was further widened as unpaid and unacknowledged academic and domestic work disproportionately affected women. This paper draws on data gathered from survey, diary studies and in-depth interviews with female academics in the social sciences and humanities. It examines how Indonesian female academics juggled domestic and professional work at home, caring duties both at home and work, and shouldering administrative workloads. In addition, findings reveal that female academics found new meanings in their academic work and the importance of caring and collective solidarity, especially in a crisis such as the pandemic. © 2023 Association for Tertiary Education Management and the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education.
Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia; Graduate School of Education, University of Western Australia, Australia; Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia; Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia
