Social challenges affecting academic women's research achievements : an applied study to female staff members at the faculty of arts, Imam Abdul Rahman Bin Faisal university

Abstract EN

Academic women are one of the elements of university work, and one of their functions is scientific research and research achievements that represent a fundamental pillar in promoting intellectual and scientific openness and community development.

Despite the importance of these achievements, there may be some challenges affecting them, and the problem of current research was identifying the reality of research achievements, and the challenges affecting it to reach a suggested vision to face those challenges and activate its research achievements, which increases its participation in achieving the development of their society.

The research aimed to determine the reality of academic women's research achievements, and the social challenges affecting them, and to come up with proposals to deal with them.

The research was a descriptive and analytical type.

The appropriate method was a social survey, and an electronic questionnaire was used to collect the required data.

The research was applied to a non-random sample of 120 female staff members at the Faculty of Arts, Imam Abdul Rahman bin Faisal University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Among the most important results of the research: The lack of published research for female faculty members, and their research interests in terms of category were women's issues.

In terms of the field in societal problems and issues, there are also some challenges, including: the subjectivity represented in the difficulty of reconciling between the multiple tasks of academic and family women represented in the large number of domestic and university tasks represented in the increase in administrative burdens, the procedural burden represented in the lack of uniform standards for publication, The societal awareness represented by the lack of societal awareness of the importance of research in serving the community, and the materiality represented by the decrease in the specialized budget for scientific research.

The research also presented a proposed vision to face these social challenges to support academic women to increase the effectiveness of their research achievements.