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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED158626 AUTHOR: Astin, Alexander W.
TITLE: Data Pertaining to the Education of Women: A
Challenge to the Federal Government.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1978
NOTE: 24 p.; Prepared for the Census Bureau Conference on
Issues in Federal Statistical Needs Relating to Women
(April
27-28, 1978)
ABSTRACT: Data requirements for a comprehensive assessment
of the educational status of women are evaluated. Issues
concerning school personnel and women's educational
development are considered. Postsecondary and
elementary/secondary education are considered separately.
Sex role stereotyping of teachers and administrators and
numbers and ranking of men and women in academics are
addressed. The federal government needs a mechanism for
surveying recruitment and promotion of college faculty that
provides data on faculty sex distributions by rank,
longitudinal surveys of individual faculty members, and
separate tabulations of newly-promoted and newly-hired
faculty. Similar needs exist for elementary and secondary
systems. Regular monitoring is needed of faculty pay scales
among institutions differing in faculty sex composition.
Analyses and dissemination of information on the sex
composition of school administrators are needed. Monitoring
of tne educational status of women should address
educational progress (degrees obtained), education
experiences (characterisitcs of education programs), fields
of study, and persistence rates. Annual surveys on the
educational status of women should include 10- or 15-year
trends in enrollments and degrees awarded for men and
women. Information is presented on these trends. Factors
influencing women's career development and low mathematics
interests and skills at the elementary and secondary levels
need to be explored. The current federal data collection
methods of institutional surveys, informants, and self
reports are described. (SW)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Career-Planning; Data
Analysis; Educational-Assessment; Elementary-Secondary
Education; Government-Role; Higher-Education; Information
Needs; National-Surveys; Sex-Stereotypes
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Administrator-Selection;
*Equal-Education; *Equal-Opportunities-Jobs; *Females-;
*Sex-Discrimination; *Womens-Education
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