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RESEARCH_AND_RELATED_CAPACITY_STRENGTHENING

Examining Participation and Quality of Experiences of Women in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics: Postgraduate Training Programs and Careers in East Africa, IDRC Women in STEM

Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, 2021 - 2023
Research and Related Capacity Strengthening (RRCS)
Evelyne Gitau, PhD
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Most challenging aspects of the COVID19 for your work (Mostchallengingaspectsofthe)

Data file: IDRC Women in STEM Online Survey Dataset

Overview

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Questions and instructions

Literal question
What have been the most challenging aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic for your work?
Categories
Value Category
- Physical interactive meetings not doable, the online ones are not so effective - Students are not serious with online lessons - Some students do not attend lessons as required and neglect to carry out required duties
-Coordinating the study - getting participants during this pandemic
-Delivering lectures and assessing coursework and tests - Having few staff at work - Limited visits to the field
ANY
About the finance
Access to Supervisor and University.
Access to clients
Access to equipment and facility
Access to human resource
Access to internet and computer. Restricted traveling
Access to internet has been a challenge; it has been quite expensive to buy adequate data to download research resources
Access to laboratory equipment
Access to reliable resources
Access to resources
Access to resources.
Access to tools needed to do my work
Accessibility to the library
Accessing internet
Accumulation of documents
Aceessing the work areas, equipment, shopping of samples, restructuring of budgets
Adapting to the new life
Addressing public needs that require site visits and inspections
Adjusting to online learning, reduced socialization with peers
Adopting the new normal in some environments
Affecting my financial part
All things got spoilt
Any
As a frontline worker, I felt at risk before being vaccinated. Initially, there was reduced income
As a teacher, I was not able to deliver to my learners as there was no online teaching
At risk of been infected
Balancing home and work
Being a healthcare worker, Covid 19 was a direct occupational risk.
Being alone at work without colleagues to consult from
Being away from work and not earning
Being called to office at any time where there is high risk of contracting the virus
Being cautious every moment at work
Being grounded and not being allowed human contact
Being laid off
Being unable to reach people for sample collection
COVID preventive measures were poorly implemented
Challenges in data collection
Challenges in data collection, especially in plan, meeting study participants, increment in research costs, working from home, limited access to internet, less frequent communication with supervisors
Changed calendar
Changed norm of physical meetings to virtual meeting s which sometimes its difficult to achieve
Clients retention on care,closing of boundaries as a containment measure,loss of sources of income for clients to mention a few
Closure of laboratories, libraries and travel restrictions affected progress of some research activities.
Closure of schools for a long period of time
Collecting data from patients and providers
Communication
Communication was most of the time online
Controlled movements and death of my big brother
Coping with it while working
Cost of internet bundles
Could not move to the field incase of any questionnaires
Covid 19 has increased my level of anxiety about many things especially regarding the well being of my family and friends
DEATH
Data collection
Data collection delayed
Data collection was a problem
Death and lockdown
Death of colleagues Separation in work station Discriminations of strangers due to suspicion of having covid 19
Delay in university processes.
Delay of academic works
Delay of completing some tasks
Delayed University calendar
Delayed calendar
Delayed project start
Delaying my studies
Delaying our goals
Delays
Delays in everything especially laboratory work
Difficult in mplementing my project
Difficult to travel
Difficult to work from home
Disorganization everything
Disruption of work and none payment for lockdown period
Distance between patients physical address
Doing at home
Drinking
Economic and social
Engaging in discussions
Everything
Exposure to different strains of COVID because of much contact with others
Failure to access office facilities due to limited mobility
Failure to acquire funding for my research as well as funding for the course
Family responsibilities that have increased
Fear
Fear to COVID-19 pandemic itself, Limitations to normal schedules
Financement
Finances
Financial burden to students and parent as internet services are not cheap. As a result some of students missed online session
Financial challenge.
Financial constraints
Financial crisis
Financially
Finding journal articles from the library, access to internet and meeting with fellow students to encourage each other
Funding. Families suffered most private institutions were not functioning and workers were laid off their jobs
Funds
Funds withdrawal
Gathering we cannot attend the seminar because of fear
Generally remained the same
Getting hold of my supervisors, getting people in one room for a presentation
Group face to face meeting have been impossible.
Having no reaserch population
Having to juggle between family responsibilities and work
Having to work and care for children when the schools got closed down
Having to work from home when the home is not designed to have a separate study room
Health and safety risks: Workers who are required to work in close proximity to others, such as healthcare workers and retail employees, are at risk of exposure to the virus. Remote work challenges: While remote work has allowed some workers
How to conduct lesson online
I am more technology competent
I can't access resources like library
I could not move freely to the field to collect data
I have lost all my opportunities to get a job because of the COVID -19
I have not faced any. I am still searching for work.
I lost a job
I was obliged to maintain social distanciation with famille,freind,and work team
I was stopped to go every where
I work in a covid-19 unit
I worked as a part time technician and when COVID-19 began I couldn't do the practicals hence my job ended
Inability to complete laboratory work on time.
Inability to move during lockdown to carry on with my survey
Increased anxiety because of the risk of contracting Covid at my work place
Increased workload
Infections
Interactions and laboratory actuvities
Interactions with individuals who didn't wish to obey the COVID 19 SOPs but me at risk of contracting the disease
Interfering with teaching calendar
Internet
Internet connectivity
Internet connectivity and students without laptops
Internet connectivity at home
Internet connectivity, Demotivated learners, lack of enough resources for online teaching
Internet/ network connection
Irregular work hours
Isolation and associated mental health.
Isolations
It delayed the negotiation
It has caused much stress
It has costed me in that I have not been able to get employed as most industry are laying off people.
It significantly increased the workload and stress because l had to treat an overwhelming number of patients with COVID-19 and provide care for other medical conditions.
Juggling in between work and other household activities
Keeping focused around soo many distractions
LIMITED RESTRICTION
Lack of access to IPC supplies for staff and patients at the supported health centres. Interruption of activity implementation and access to services were limited
Lack of access to laboratory to conduct my research
Lack of access to office infrastructure and resources.
Lack of access to participant
Lack of access to study participants
Lack of access to the field and lab The online teaching affected my students performance
Lack of important physical meetings, power outages during virtual meetings
Lack of money
Lack of physical meeting with my supervisors
Lack of stable internet connectivity
Lack of travel to conferences for exchanging ideas, lack of funding opportunities
Lack of up-close supervision encourages procrastination
Lackof field visit
Les conges
Less external contacts
Less work, people lost jobs
Limited access to physical meetings that are sometime more interactive and fulfilling than online meetings.
Limited access to resources
Limited control on class attendance
Limited documentation, difficulties to visit foreign universities
Limited interaction
Limited movement Reduced income More time at home
Limited movement. Death of clients
Limited movements to the field
Limited movements, especially during lockdowns
Limited social interactions
Lockdown
Lossing our beloved one
Low funds for conducting different developmental activities
Market
Mask
Meeting participants
Mental stress and anxiety caused by fear of getting sick
Minimal Face to face interactions which sometimes enhances the productivity and quality
Mobility
Money issues
Money to use
Movement restrictions
Movement restrictions especially for field work activities
Movements were restricted
Moving to work
My contract was not renewed thus affecting my income.
My publications work delayed
My three PhD students from Zambia, Rwanda and Kenya could not return to Tanzania fue to lockdowns in their vountried
My work is laboratory-based thus working from home completely stalls it.
My work many times require field work and there was a banned on movement within the country and hence affecting my income negatively
N/A
N/a
NA
NO CHALLENGES BECAUSE THERE WAS NO LOCKDOWN
Negative effect on field work; onsite working while observing COVID-19 prevention measures.
Network connections
Networking online is challenging as you can not reach to conclusive deals and agreements
Nil
No
No access to some places
No allowance
No challdnging
No challenge
No collaboration with my classmates to share ideas
No customers for my other businesses like travel agency
No decisions meetings
No meeting allowed
No mitigation planed from my university
No overseas travels
No promotion, fail to meet deadline
No room for social relation
No work life balance
None
Not applicable
Not being able to do lab work
Not being able to meet my supervisors physically
Not being able to move and inability to execute research
Not teaching students
Nothing
Observing government's protocol of safety
Observing COVID -19 protocols
Online lectures are tricky
Online meetings so no travelling hence no allowances
Online teaching is technically challenging since many students had no reliable internet and couldn't meet deadline. When the University resumed operations,the tension of being exposed to COVID was just too much because classes are crowded and s
Online work
Opportunities for networking and travel greatly affected
Patient recruitment has been challenging. Additional needs
Pausing work some time
Physical training and refresher courses banned
Playing the role of mother, bringing up kids who need alot of attention and completing my studies
Posing great opportunity for proposal designs in the lockdown period hence securing funding.
Practical activities with students and running examinations
Price changes
Rearrangement of teaching weeks
Reduced in person scholarly meetings and interactions.
Reduced income
Reduced workload and lockdowns
Reduction of opportunities
Reliable internet
Relocation of participants
Research and practical courses have been hard to instruct
Research insuffisante
Resources
Restricted movement
Restricted movement. Especially to drug shops away from my district. Too many road blocks were on the way.
Restrictions
Retrenchment of employees
Rien
SOCIAL SSPECTS
Salary slashing
School closure which delayed my work
Shortage of supplies especially PPEs 36.3% of my departmental staff were infected with the virus and this paralyzed service delivery for the period they were off duty for treatment.
Sicknesses
Slow in economic development
Slow progress
Slow the progress by limiting access to laboratories, supervisors, workshops, seminars
Slowed wirk
Some people lost their jobs
Sometimes remote access to documents is not possible
Staff hit by pandemic,being in quarantine thus affecting their supervisory roles
Stop the job
Stopped recruitment of study participants
Stopping all the research activities and staying home for more than six months without collecting any substantial data and lacking and scientific output from the research. Also, continue payment of workers from the research funds which were lat
Students didn't manage internet charges
Supervision, University administrative issues, enough research funding and timely delivery of research resources
Surviving without money
Suspension of academic calender
Suspension of field work activities
Suspension of study activities delayed approval of my reservation considerably
Taking care of Covid-19 patients.
Teaching mathematics online was very challenging during teaching online
Teaching online undergraduate
Technology challenges, unstable internet
The challenge that I faced during COVID-19 was the financial issue to buy the bundles.
The initial stigma associated with it
The institution was closed up.
The isolation
The lack of physical meetings, students light in using the listening mode and dont participate in the lectures and this has greatly affected their performance.
The most challenging aspect was inability to physically meet my fellow PhDstudents and it prevented the physical conferences.
The opportunities either died or became scarce
The slow acceptance of the change
There are courses I was forced to do online courses instead of presential
There was a grant which was not released due to COVID-19
Thé delay in each activity
Time
To access to the database and records
To be in quarantine affected My works
To get familiar with working at home was a big challenge
To get ready to work alone
To move
To work at home is somehow challenging because to care about the children and work at the same time is not easy.
Too much work and very few individuals with the skillset
Transition to online teaching
Transport
Transport and working environment
Transport costs
Transport means to workplace were a challenge.
Travel to work became troublesome
Traveling
Umploiyed
Unable to access required materials
Uncertainty
Uncertainty of employment since my school work is self sponsored
Unpredictability of the pandemic
Unreliable funds and consultation
Virtual meetings not the best
Virtual teaching with limited facilities
Wearing Mask
Wearing masks
Work at home
Working at home
Working at home while taking care of the kids
Working from Home
Working from home
Working from home Limited access to reliable technology and equipment
Working from home Decreasing network Decreased resources in non COVID-19 fields
Working from home and Online
Working from home and getting work done takes longer than expected
Working from home and internet
Working from home during rock down
Working from home was a big disraction for me
Working from home; accessing funds
Working from in the midst of many other responsibilities. Having stable internet is expensive and also gadgets are expensive. I had to invest more to support this. Whereas the salary remained the same.
Working in shifts
Worry
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academic writing from home was not possible, participants displacement has increased the rate of loss of follow up
access to information/ research resources
access to lab
accessibility to resources
attending courses online
availability of internet conectivity
being unwell Internet
collection of data for research work
combining my resaerch with domestic responsabilities Lack of internet
data purchases
delayed field data collection
delays
delays in data collection
fear
financial support, difficult live, some product more expensive
going for exchange programs
inability to access office and the resources therein Inability to access library resources and delayed response from reviewers of my publications
inaccessibility of adequate resources
inconsistency
internet
internet supply
keeping distance in an office environment
lack of data collection opportunity
lack of fund, delayed completion
laying off
less pay reduced number of participants
limited accessibility to resources
limited movements and difficulties in accessing sampling sites and laboratory equipment.
limited resources
lock down limiting mobility
lockdown, spiritual absence due to mosque closure, fear of contracting C19
lockdowns
loss of concentration to work, despair, discouraged, lack of financial means
low interaction with others
meeting timelines
movement restriction and thus time lost for research and spoilage of expensive laboratory reagents due to expiration
no
no challenge
no challenges
no salary
non
none
not be able to interact with my colleagues
not being able to communicate with others as before using only emails, calls and messages causes project progression to slow since I do not know what am suppose to be doing when as opposed to physical learning where one can access people who ha
not travelling
nothing
physical learning suspension
poor Internet
projects have reduced
projects were delayed
restrictions
salary reduction
sitting at home
slowed experiments/assays due to reagents
staying at home
stop doing things in framed time
suspend it
working from home
working from home is hard in making sure I meet the need of my students
yes
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Question pretext
Effect of the covid19 pandemic on women's progression
Question post text
Most challenging aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic for your work
Interviewer instructions
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Description

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Participant indicates what have been the most challenging aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic for their work
Universe
Women in STEM
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