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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED217769 AUTHOR: Keetz, Mary A.
TITLE: The Status of Women Faculty at West Chester State
College, 1979-1980: Full-time Professional Staff Compared to
Student Majors, Degrees Conferred, and Full-Time Equivalent
Teaching Faculty. Report Number 1.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1981
NOTE: 80 p.
AVAILABILITY: West Chester State College, Institute for
Women, West Chester, PA 19380.
ABSTRACT: The status of women faculty at West Chester State
College, Pennsylvania in 1979-1980 was examined. The data
permit longitudinal comparisons concerning: the distribution
of full-time professional staff by rank, division, and sex
as related to the national percentages; the number of
student majors and degrees conferred by faculty, school,
department, and sex; and full-time equivalent teaching
faculty. The West Chester State College female faculty
exceeded the female national norms for each rank. Female
faculty are found in greater numbers on the Faculty of
Professional Studies and are noticeably absent in all
subdivisions of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and at
certain ranks in the Schools of Administration and Public
Affairs, Education, Health Sciences, and Music. The male
faculty have a greater number of doctorates (52.27 percent)
than does the female faculty (32.92 percent). The unequal
distribution of women faculty at the college does not always
match the available number of women with doctorates in a
particular field, and the proportion of female faculty
within each department is less than the proportion of female
undergraduate majors in all departments except one, nursing.
In addition, while 28.6 percent of the faculty is female,
only 17.75 percent of the graduate full-time equivalent
teaching faculty is female. A review of research examines
the national distribution of faculty by rank, sex, and
institutional type, and the availability of women with the
doctorate. Recommendations include the following: hiring
patterns should be examined to corroborate that affirmative
action guidelines are being followed, and the campus
environment should be studied to determine if it is
supportive of women students. Sex distribution data on
faculty and students by department are appended, along with
a bibliography. (SW)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: College-Faculty; Comparative-Analysis;
Females-; Full-Time-Equivalency; Full-Time-Faculty; Graduate
Study; Higher-Education; Institutional-Research; Majors
Students; Males-; Undergraduate-Study
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Academic-Rank-Professional; *Departments-;
*Doctoral-Degrees; *Sex-Differences; *Women-Faculty
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