Аннотация
Women academic are poorly represented in the Nigerian tertiary institutions as a result of many barriers which many people could not comprehend at a glance. So, the purpose of this review paper is to offer a synoptic stance or view on barriers to women academic development in Nigerian tertiary institutions and to make suggestions to improve their representation in the higher education in Nigeria. The researcher entirely relies on published secondary data from reputable sources including review of published articles from reputable international journals such as SAGE, JSTOR, Springer, IEEE, CEON, Hindawi, Nebraska, LearnTechlib and Elsevier amongst others. Content Analysis has been used in planning the subject of this research and analyzing the whole data collected from the relevant secondary sources. During this appraisal, majorities of the online journals and reports on the subject matter were reviewed. The result obtained showed that women academic are underrepresented in the tertiary institutions and the factors responsible includes; cultural and societal factors, poor implementation of gender policy, early marriage, economic factor, religions factor, foundational enrolment problems, career demand and limited access to leadership positions as barriers to women academic development in Nigerian tertiary institutions. In this context, measures to address these barriers includes full implementation of gender policies; employment of more women in academic tertiary institutions; provision of work environment that is gender friendly and implementation of public awareness sensitization on woman empower in the societies.