Where are women in academia?

One can only wonder why women disappear as they advance academically.

When I found male teachers dominantly all around at a premier university in Kathmandu on the first day of my Master's degree in English, it was a feeling of deja vu. After all, no female faculty had taught me at the provincial colleges in Pokhara, where I received my post-secondary-level education. This, I realise, is a tell-tale story of the underrepresentation of women in academia—an all too common global issue to which Nepal is no exception.