Carving your destiny in academia as a “lecturer” and a “mother”

• Main Author: Soubakeavathi, Rethinasamy
• Other Authors: Ida Fatimawati, Adi Badiozaman
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English; English
• Published: Routledge 2023
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); HQ The family. Marriage. Woman; L Education (General); LG Individual institutions (Asia. Africa)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/41348/2/Women.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/41348/1/carving-destiny-academia-lecturer-mother-rethinasamy-soubakeavathi; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/41348/; https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003341482-14/carving-destiny-academia-lecturer-mother-rethinasamy-soubakeavathi
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Hidden within the single-word job title “lecturer” is a long list of multi-layered responsibilities. For a woman who is a lecturer, possibly added to this long list is the undefinable crucial “job” packaged into an oversimplified single word – “Mother.” In this autoethnography, the author provides a...