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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED125404 AUTHOR: Liss, Lora
TITLE: The Status of Women at Fairleigh Dickinson
University. A Report.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1974
NOTE: 211 p.; Not available in hard copy due to marginal
reproducibility of original document
ABSTRACT: It was against a background of general societal
concern for the status of women and the development of an
Affirmative Action Plan at Fairleigh Dickinson University
that the Status of Women study was undertaken. Preliminary
statistical data revealed a pattern similar to the national
findings of differential salaries, rank, and tenure for
women, relative to male colleagues. While the percentage of
women on faculties has been found to be smallest at the
"elite institutions," it is of interest that at a
four-year,
"non-elite," private university, such as Fairleigh
Dickinson, the percentage of women on the faculty still
does
not exceed 20.5 percent. Of a total of 488 faculty members
in 1972-73, 100 were women. Information was also collected
in the study regarding: perceptions of discrimination, sex
awareness in career choice, marital status, preferred
activities, departmental differentiation, personnel
decisions, university policies and benefits, professional
development, and the women's movement. The most striking
finding of the indepth interviews was the proportionately
low amount of perceived discrimination among women who have
clearly been "tracked" along a second-class route to
academic success. (Author/KE)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Academic-Achievement; Academic-Rank
Professional; Administrators-; College-Faculty; College
Students; Comparative-Analysis; Degrees-Academic; Fringe
Benefits; Grade-Point-Average; Males-; Marital-Status;
Nondiscriminatory-Education; Personnel-Policy; Salaries-;
Teacher-Promotion; Tenure-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *Equal-Opportunities
Jobs; *Females-; *Higher-Education; *Sex-Discrimination
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