...Geraldine Hardie; Shamika Almeida; Kanchana Wijayawardena; Betty Frino; Hui-Ling Wang; Afshan Rauf Purpose This paper examines the experiences of a team of female academics (teaching a large cohort of undergraduate students) and the coping mechanisms used to combat the challenges they confront...

... conducted with 32 female academics working at four different universities. Findings The narrative demonstrates the gendered use of cronyism at work – pre-COVID-19, during which female academics had to work full-time and be present on school campuses, and after COVID-19 pandemic, when academic working...