women in academic positions in the universities in nigeria

Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria while 46 per cent of the respondents at theUniversity of Benin rated this highly.The highest qualification of most academic staff at the time they wererecruited was either First Degree or Masters Degree. Therefore, they wererecruited as junior academic staff with the ranks of Lecturer I, Lecturer II,Assistant Lecturer and Graduate/Research Assistants. Many NigerianUniversities, especially the University of Nigeria, have a staff developmentscheme whereby the best students are employed as Assistant Lecturer or JuniorFellows when they graduate. In those universities where such a scheme doesnot exist people get information about the possibility of being recruited throughnewspaper advertisement, university notice boards and through friends.Therefore, the first Alternate Hypothesis that institutional culture affectsthe recruitment of women as academic staff is valid with respect to the formalfactors of recruitment.The university service or system is a closed system in the sense that itdoes not lead to anywhere beyond the precincts of the university system. Thismeans that a person who is employed or recruited into a university service stayswith the system until retirement. The hope is that the person moves up thesteps in the hierarchy by promotion and appointment to higher academic andadministrative academic position in the university system.The investigation of the effect of institutional culture on the promotion offemale academic staff shows that most of the respondents (52 to 89 per cent)are aware of the existence of both formal and informal procedures for thepromotion of academic staff. In fact, at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka the