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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED158636 AUTHOR: Packard, Sandra
TITLE: Tottering on the Brink. The Future of Women Art
Faculty in Higher Education.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1978
NOTE: 23 p.; Reprinted from the "National Council of Art
Administrators Report, 1976"
ABSTRACT: Current trends and forces that may deter the
future of women art faculty in higher education were
examined. Women have been acquiring the necessary
credentials for employment and promotion in art
departments, but they are balanced between a future of full
participation in academe and a decline to tokenism. Women
constitute over 50 percent of the undergraduate art majors,
but the percentage of women in art faculties has been
declining to a low of 19.5 percent in 1974, and the status
of women in art administration is even lower. Hiring,
promotion, tenure, and salary differentials have been
discriminatory against women. Women are not fairly
represented on art studies, art education, or art history
faculties. Lack of visibility in exhibitions, publications,
and on college faculties has made it difficult for women to
present themselves as serious artists and teachers. The
influence of the women's movement on attitudes and social
change, laws which prohibit discrimination in education and
employment, and affirmative action programs are discussed.
(SW)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Females-; Feminism-;
Higher-Education; Salary-Wage-Differentials; Teacher
Promotion; Tenure-; Tokenism-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Art-Teachers; *College-Faculty;
*Employment-Opportunities; *Equal-Opportunities-Jobs; *Sex
Discrimination; *Women-Faculty
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