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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED200098 AUTHOR:
TITLE: On Campus with Women, Number 29, Winter 1981.
(Employment, Education, Sex Discrimination, Health
Services).
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1981
NOTE: 19 p.; Parts may not be legible due to small print.
AVAILABILITY: Project on the Status and Education of Women,
Association of American Colleges, 1818 R Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20009.
ABSTRACT: Developments concerning women in the workplace,
the courts, and schools are reported. Among the issues
related to employment are the following: female faculty
members earn less in salary than males, despite receiving
slightly higher raises than males; unemployment among women
doctorates in the humanities is higher than that of males;
age discrimination of the older women worker was found in
a ten-city study. Additional areas that are covered
include: statistical approaches to examine salary equity;
equity issues that postsecondary institutions need to
assess; sex bias, promotion, and tenure court cases
involving female faculty members; a 1981 guidebook to
employment legislation and regulations; sexual harassment
lawsuits; publications providing information to students
concerning sexual harassment; information on Hispanic
women's organizations; conferences on minority women;
women's studies programs; trends in women's choice of
fields of study; women in graduate schools and medical
schools; women in science; the establishment of national
women's championships in sports ; a 1981 women's sports
scholarship guide; publications about women in Europe and
South and Central America; fellowships, awards, and
scholarships; resource materials on sex equity
counseling and research; sex bias in testing; and women and
the media. An insert is included on health services and
Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments, which prohibits
sex discrimination in federally assisted schools and
colleges. (SW)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Academic-Rank-Professional; College
Students; Court-Litigation; Equal-Education; Equal
Opportunities-Jobs; Faculty-Promotion; Fellowships-;
Foreign Countries; Graduate-Study; Higher-Education;
Mathematics-; Minority-Groups; Salary-Wage-Differentials;
Scholarships-; Sciences-; Sex-Bias; Tenure-; Women-Faculty;
Womens Athletics; Womens-Studies
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *Employed-Women;
*Females-; *Health-Services; *Males-; *Sex-Discrimination;
*Womens-Education
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