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Overcoming Challenges and Barriers for Women in Business and Education: Socioeconomic Issues and Strategies for the Future
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Author(s)/Editor(s): Alice S. Etim (Winston-Salem State University, USA)and James Etim (Winston-Salem State University, USA)
Copyright: ©2021
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3814-2
EISBN13: 9781799838159
ISBN13: 9781799838142
ISBN10: 1799838145
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DescriptionRecently, greater emphasis has been placed on the fact that women, regardless of whether they are located in developed or developing nations, are still facing numerous challenges regarding their financial status, education, and independence. As recent movements have highlighted such problems as unequal pay and sexual harassment and abuse, it has become imperative that steps must be taken to analyze these problems and offer solutions to combat these inequalities that would improve women’s lives and society as a whole. Overcoming Challenges and Barriers for Women in Business and Education: Socioeconomic Issues and Strategies for the Future is an essential reference source that highlights cross-cultural perspectives, obstacles, and opportunities pertaining to the advancement of women’s lives in society. The chapters within the book explore a variety of concepts for building a bridge to women empowerment and improving their participation in the development of their respective societies. Featuring research on topics such as global business, higher education, and gender discrimination, this book is ideally designed for managers, business professionals, entrepreneurs, social scientists, policymakers, gender studies researchers, students, and academicians looking for strategies that will help to empower women through the book’s social justice model, which acts as an underlying theoretical construct.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Alice Etim (Ed.)
Alice S. Etim
is Professor of Management Information Systems at Winston-Salem State University. She received her Ph.D. from the iSchool at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Etim has published extensively in her field of Information Science/Systems and her scholarly works are accessible globally. They include many peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and an edited book Developing Countries and Technology Inclusion in the 21st Century Information Society (2021). Etim is the co-editor of Overcoming Challenges and Barriers for Women in Business and Education: Socioeconomic Issues and Strategies for the Future (2021) and the Handbook of Research on Solutions for Equity and Social Justice in Education (2023). Etim’s research interests and published works span information and communication technology (ICT) adoption, diffusion, and impact in business/organizations, education, healthcare, project teams, disadvantaged groups, and women. She has also researched and published extensively on the uses of the technologies for service delivery - mobile money & payment systems, mobile commerce, mobile health & telemedicine, ICT & microfinance, and ICT for sustainable development/poverty reduction. Etim served as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of ICT Research in Africa and the Middle East (IJICTRAME) between 2016 and 2023.
James Etim (Ed.)
James S. Etim is a Professor of Education in the Department of Education at Winston Salem State University. He received his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wyoming, Laramie. His research areas include Middle grades English Language Arts, education across cultures, instructional strategies and gender issues in education. He has authored one book and edited/coedited eight books. He has published (solely and jointly) more than 60 articles and book chapters in both national and international journals. He has been a Co Pi of a National Science Foundation grant on the use of technology in the classrooms (2013-2016). He has received two Fulbright Specialist Awards, one to Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria and the other to the Polytechnic of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia. He has also been a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow at the University of Jos, Nigeria (2017). Between 2015 and 2018, he serves as the Education Panel Chair for the Global Undergraduate Awards, Dublin, Ireland. In 2017, he became part of the Center for the Study of Economic Mobility at Winston Salem State University, researching on issues related to education for at risk learners and technology in education. He is also the Founding Editor ofInternational Journal of Gender Studies in Developing Societiess.
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