Recently I stumbled upon the post of Shqipdona, where she to summarize it, wasn’t granted an academic position at the Faculty of Medicine despite supposedly being a 10.0 out of 10.0 average grade student (probably the best average ever). Read her full post here: https://www.facebook.com/shqipdona.lahu/posts/3148538701827437
This got me thinking about the general gender diversity in Kosovo’s Academic sector in general, and I wanted to know some facts. I’ve gathered data about academic staff from all tertiary institutions in Kosovo and calculated the female % of each university’s academic staff.
And to say the least, the numbers are shocking. There’s a 32.45% overall female % of academic staff average in Kosovo, ranging from 45.25% at College AAB and down to 11.52% at College Fama. On the other hand, a fact which is really interesting, is that the overall school enrollment of female students in Kosovo is 52.32% a trend, placing Kosovo’s tertiary female % school enrollment in the top 10 of the world according to The World University Rankings!
I mean obviously there are plenty of female students, but the data doesn’t tell us why the higher they go up the academic ladder, the lower the number of female employees.
Source: Kosovo Agency of Statistics
Tools: Python, R & plotly