{"id":5049,"date":"2025-06-19T22:55:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T22:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/a-conceptual-framework-for-mentorship-support-to-early-career-black-women-academics-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T03:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T03:19:55","slug":"a-conceptual-framework-for-mentorship-support-to-early-career-black-women-academics-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/a-conceptual-framework-for-mentorship-support-to-early-career-black-women-academics-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conceptual Framework for Mentorship Support to Early-Career Black Women Academics in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>A Conceptual Framework for Mentorship Support to Early-Career Black Women Academics in South Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/journals.dut.ac.za\/index.php\/ajims\/article\/view\/1428' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/journals.dut.ac.za\/index.php\/ajims\/article\/view\/1428\/986' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>Globally, career development is a challenge for women academics at higher education institutions. In South African higher education institutions, Black women academics still lag in terms of career progression and their representation in leadership positions compared to their male counterparts.\u00a0 While structural and systemic challenges contribute to this, a lack of formal mentorship support for Black women academics is among the underlying reasons. Against this background,using various mentorship models applied in higher education institutions as the theoretical lens,this article explores a conceptual framework for mentorship support to early-career Black women academics, which will often happen in a cross-cultural context due to historical imbalances. Through a qualitative research approach, a narrative literature review is provided based on content analysis of literature, both peer-reviewed and non-reviewed. Through a conceptual framework, this study provides insight regarding the type of mentorship support that is required to advance the career development trajectory of early-career Black women academics in South Africa, considering the paucity of women\u2019s mentorship programs at most of our higher education institutions. Recommendations propose how mentorships can be integrated into the formal career development trajectory of these academics.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mar\u00e9ve Biljohn (University of the Free State, South Africa)<\/li>\n<li>Tatenda Shaleen Marange (University of the Free State, South Africa)<\/li>\n<li>Aliza le Roux (University of the Free State, South Africa)<\/li>\n<li>Kathleen Schroeder (Appalachian State University, United States of America)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>mentorship, higher education, women, black academics, South Africa<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: A Conceptual Framework for Mentorship Support to Early-Career Black Women Academics in South Africa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[2153,1608,1331,1605,1265,828],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ajims","tag-black-academics","tag-higher-education","tag-mentorship","tag-south-africa","tag-women","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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