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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED296632 AUTHOR: Simeone, Angela
TITLE: Academic Women Working towards Equality.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1987
NOTE: 161 p.
AVAILABILITY: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, 670 Amherst Road,
South Hadley, MA 01075 ($10.95 paper copy--ISBN-0-89789-114
7; $29.95 cloth copy--ISBN-0-89789-111-2).
ABSTRACT: The status of efforts to achieve equality for
women faculty members in higher education is considered. The
method used by Jessie Bernard in "Academic Women" is
replicated: presenting a wide variety of studies pertaining
directly or indirectly to faculty women and then suggesting
larger trends indicated by the findings. In addition,
interviews were conducted with 20 female faculty members at
a large, prestigious, northeastern research university
representing a wide range of disciplines. Topics of
discussion cover: career choices and the factors that lead
women to these choices; the formal indicators of women's
status in academe, such as salary, rank, and tenure; the
differences in perceptions of women and men faculty members
as well as their interpretation of their academic role; the
informal relationships between academic women and their
colleagues and sponsor/mentor relationships between women
students and faculty members and between junior and senior
faculty members; and marital status--the problems women face
in reconciling career and family choices, and the
institutional supports and barriers they encounter. (SW)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Academic-Rank-Professional; Affirmative
Action; Blacks-; College-Faculty; Family-Status; Higher
Education; Interprofessional-Relationship; Marital-Status;
Mentors-; Minority-Groups; Salary-Wage-Differentials;
Scholarship-; Teacher-Attitudes; Teacher-Role; Teacher
Salaries; Tenure-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Career-Choice; *Employment-Practices;
*Personnel-Policy; *Women-Faculty
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