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Challenges Affecting Women PhD Candidates for Completion of Doctoral Educations: A Synthesis of the Literature
Ezechiel Nsabayezu
Abstract
Higher education for women is critical to the development of human capital and the overall sustainable socio-cultural and economic development of any country. However, women PhD candidates confront a number of challenges in gaining entrance to and completing their higher education. The most typical issue for women PhD candidates is juggling numerous roles. Combining family responsibilities, career commitments, and academic requirements has a significant impact on women PhD students, resulting in stress. One of the most difficult challenges for women PhD candidates, particularly mothers, throughout their PhD studies is managing maternal and family matters in universities where the motherhood role is not recognized. Women PhD candidates require emotional, economical, mothering, and housekeeping support, as well as educational areas of life to help them take on their duties and obligations. Primarily the student’s family members, university teachers, or classmates may provide all of these supports. As a result, following the discussion of dropout for doctoral students, this review paper reflects on issues affecting the completion of PhD studies for women PhD candidates. This review is a systematic overview of the existing literature, which includes books, articles, and other online literatures related to the study. The literature was obtained through Scopus, ERIC, ISI web of knowledge, academia, web of science, digital library, and Google scholar. It aims to identify the obstacles that prevent women from completing doctoral degrees. Social isolation, loneliness and stress, inappropriate socioeconomic conditions, supervision relationship, and simultaneous management were identified as challenges. To emphasize the importance of PhD mother students' responsibilities, assistance and education for acquiring the abilities to perform these roles, as well as university structure, should be family friendly.
