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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED198761 AUTHOR: Mitchell, Marianne H.; And Others
TITLE: Women in Higher Education: A Casebook. Equity for
Women in Higher Education Project.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1978
NOTE: 65 p.; For related documents, see HE 013 509-510.
ABSTRACT: Seven case studies describing a number of
situations in which various forms of discrimination against
women in higher education have occurred are presented. The
case materials were gathered from a number of doctoral
level universities, which are not individually identified.
Types of discrimination that are considered include: (1)
selection processes for student admission and personnel
employment; (2) reward systems for salary, rank, and tenure
issues as well as class loads, travel funds, availability
of graduate assistants to women faculty, and opportunities
for women students to obtain assistantships; (3)
professional socialization, including both the more formal
mechanisms of introducing professional peers and students
to information sources, resources, and opportunities for
productivity and the less formal techniques for providing
support, encouragement and collegiality; (4) expectations
for productivity, including expectations and preconceptions
held about how and in what areas students and faculty are
likely to concentrate their efforts and achieve success;
(5) subordinate/superordinate relationships, encompassing
the myriad of circumstances in universities in which
students, staff, faculty, and administrators find
themselves involved in hierarchical relationships; and (6)
remedies and recourse, including the special problems which
arise when sex discrimination has reached the point where
recourse to intra-institutional and extra-institutional
channels is initiated by an individual member of the
university community. The individual cases may involve
simultaneously, two, three, or four evidences of sex
discrimination. (SW)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Academic-Rank-Professional; Admission
Criteria; Affirmative-Action; Assistantships-;
Case-Studies;
College-Admission; College-Students; Expectation-; Faculty
College-Relationship; Faculty-Promotion; Faculty
Recruitment; Females-; Grievance-Procedures; Higher
Education; Power-Structure; Productivity-; Professional
Recognition; Role-Perception; Sex-Role; Sex-Stereotypes;
Socialization-; Teacher-Salaries; Teacher-Selection;
Tenure-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Equal-Education; *Equal-Opportunities
Jobs; *Sex-Discrimination; *Teacher-Employment; *Women
Faculty; *Womens-Education
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