There are no distinct patterns capturing women’s routes into university leadership roles in Southeast Asia, so a collective effort is needed using all means and all pathways to promote women leaders, experts heading a project on Asian women’s leadership in universities have found.

Women’s leadership in higher education in Southeast Asia “is context-based; there are no patterns”, noted Romyen Kosaikanont, centre director of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Regional Centre for Higher Education and Development (SEAMEO RIHED). She noted that there is very little research on women’s trajectories towards top leadership positions in the region’s universities.

“It’s very important that we recognise this and try to understand this journey,” Kosaikanont told University World News. And in the absence of current research, “collective efforts, collective intelligence, and collective learning would be the way to go about it”.

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