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2015, Cilt 5, Sayı 1, Sayfa(lar) 041-051 |
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DOI: 10.5961/jhes.2015.108 |
Investigation of Women Academicians' Perceptions Regarding “Being A Woman Academician” Through Metaphors |
Fatma BAŞARIR1, Mediha SARI2 |
1Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University, The School of Foreign Languages, Nevşehir, Turkey 2Çukurova University, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences, Adana, Turkey |
Keywords: Woman academician, Gender, Metaphor |
The purpose of this study is to analyze the perceptions of women academicians regarding “being a woman academician” through metaphors.
The participants of the research are 67 women faculty members working in a newly established university in Central Anatolia Region in the
2013-2014 academic year. “Women Academicians Metaphors Survey” developed by the researchers was used as the data collection tool.
Phenomenological design was used in the research and data was analyzed by using content analysis technique. As a result of data analysis, it
was determined that women academicians developed a total of 65 metaphors. The metaphors developed by the participants were collected
under nine conceptual categories. There are 18 metaphors such as ‘octopus', ‘foodprocessor', ‘cloned person', ‘chameleon', ‘shaman', ‘Swiss
army knife' in the first category namely “woman academician as someone with multiple duties and responsibilities”. While the category
of “woman academician as someone nourishing her vicinity with her productions” has nine metaphors such as ‘soil', ‘scientist', ‘cloud',
‘water'; the category of “woman academician as someone diligent” consists of metaphors of ‘bee', ‘ant' and ‘high-speed train'. There are
seven metaphors such as ‘tumbler', ‘warrior', ‘duck' in the category of “woman academician as someone standing strong under difficulties”;
six metaphors such as ‘non-fuel powered car', ‘candle', ‘devoted mother' in the category of “woman academician as someone devoted”; five metaphors such as ‘miracle', ‘superhero' in the category of “woman academician as a miraculous presence”; four metaphors such as ‘salaried
housewife' and ‘employed housewife' in the category of “woman academician primarily as a housewife”; three metaphors as ‘scales',
‘tightrope walker' and ‘pendulum' in the category of “woman academician as someone having to maintain a balance”; three metaphors as
‘window dressing', ‘plan B' and ‘presence trying to become a whole' in the category of “woman academician as someone unnamed”.
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