Abstract
This study examined the efficacy of social predictors of female academics’ career growth and leadership position in Nigerian universities. Results show that the composite effect of the social predictors are significant ( F = 37.888; p < .05). Parental influence (β = .197; p < .05) and spousal support (β = .183; p < .05) made significant contributions to career growth, while academic men attitude toward women (β = .428; p > .05), academic men collegial support (β = .419; p < .05), parental influence (β = .368; p < .05), and spousal support (β = .250; p < .05) contributed to leadership position. Parental influence ( B = −.12; t = −4.89; p < .05) and spousal support ( B = .13; t = 4.26; p < .05) predicted career growth, while academic men attitude toward women ( B = .947; t = 3.755; p < .05), academic men collegial support ( B = −1.080; t = −3.648; p < .05), parental influence ( B = −.220; t = −9.050; p < .05), and spousal support ( B = .191; t = 6.343; p < .05) predicted leadership position. The implications are that parental influence and spousal supports are essential for career growth, while all four factors are crucial for female academics’ leadership attainment.
Highlights
Nigerian women especially from the south-west had been involved in activities outside the home as traders, farmers, and merchants (Anugwom, 2009) before colonization
Respondents were female academics; questions were 18 close-ended items, which elicited the kind of rapport/relationship female academics had with their parents or locus parentis in retrospect and the influence it has on their career, for example, “my father/ mother had high expectation of me,” “my father/ mother instilled in me a love for learning,” “my father/mother believed that having a career for a woman was very important.” (c) Academic men collegial support
What is the composite effect of the social variables on female academics’ career growth?
Summary
Nigerian women especially from the south-west had been involved in activities outside the home as traders, farmers, and merchants (Anugwom, 2009) before colonization. They were a force to reckon with in community activities; they were addressed as Iya Loja (important woman in the market place), Iya laje (astute business woman), Iya lode (a female public figure), Erelu (a female chief in Egba land), which are female chieftaincy titles to eulogize and recognize the various achievements and hard work of women (Ekejiuba, 1991; Lebeuf, 1963, Okonjo, 1976, 1991; Pereira, 2007; Sator, 1992). At a time when literary education was becoming the master key to a successful life in modern society, the different agencies responsible for the instruction of the Nigerian youth invested in upgrading the formation of boys to the detriment of girls. (p.11)
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