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3.2.1  Current position of academic women in higher education in South Africa. 
 
 The following account uses the work of Cooper and Subotzky (2001) as a point of 
departure. It describes and analyses student enrolment patterns and staff composition in 
higher education in South Africa during the period 1988 to 1998. Cooper and Subotzky 
highlight the changing trends in student enrolments and the higher education workforce 

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which are ‘skewed’ by race, gender and institutional type. They use the South African 
Post Secondary Education (SAPSE) data obtained from the Department of Education to 
describe and analyse these two aspects of the higher education system. However, for  
the purpose of this discussion, only academic women will be considered. 
 
3.2.1.1 Staff composition 
 
The subsequent table shows the percentage of professional and non-professional staff in 
the South African higher education system between 1988 and 1998.