id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_7rudeku4e5esvkmfq43thsmkly George N. Shava Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Distance Education Management Positions: Experiences from the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) 2014 14 .pdf application/pdf 9353 1187 63 The major finding from the study was that women in senior management positions were involving both men and women and the development of family friendly culture in universities. The under-representation of women in senior management positions in higher institutions achieve senior management positions is still disproportionate to the number of women employed While the international community is committed to eliminating gender disparities in management positions and equally achieving gender equality by 2015 (Longwe 2001), it is currently noticed that women managing higher education institutions face serious challenges in by women in management positions with specific reference to the Zimbabwe Open University, which is the sole provider of university distance education in Zimbabwe. challenges faced by women in distance education management positions with specific reference to the Zimbabwe Open University. that men had a negative attitude towards women in senior management positions. One of the women directors notWOMEN IN DISTANCE EDUCATION MANAGEMENT POSITIONS 369 ./cache/work_7rudeku4e5esvkmfq43thsmkly.pdf ./txt/work_7rudeku4e5esvkmfq43thsmkly.txt