The Role of Women Professionals in Transformation of Higher Education for Sustainable Development

Abstract

Unless women professionals at higher institutions of learning adopt a holistic approach to their undertakings, there is not much they can contribute towards sustainable development because, as known, sustainable development requires knowledge from various disciplines, such as sociology, management, economics, technology development, environment, communication, religion, and health. These interrelationships and inter-dependencies of various disciplines to promote sustainable development are inevitable. Thus sustainable development requires science and research based education as it hinges on investigation into the current state of development in the world, and human activities related to the same. Since the core of research and science is largely traceable in higher education, this paper claims that women should play a sound role in that core and women professionals serving at higher education should be the agents and catalysts of this critical transformation.