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Academic Women
How and why have women academics experienced patterns of exclusion, segregation and discrimination in higher education? To what extent are academic relationships characterized by endemic sexism in defence of male privilege? What parallels are there in patterns of discrimination and disadvantage for academic women in different cultural contexts? Academic Women explores these questions and investigates the relationships between gender, power and the academy through an analysis of the position of academic women in higher education in the UK and New Zealand. It considers the gap between the models of equality and academic fairness which are said to characterize academic life and the sexist reality of the academy. Ann Brooks combines new and original data drawn from statistical evidence and from the results of questionnaires and interviews with British and New Zealand women academics; and this evidence is located within a wider framework of historical evidence on the position of academic women in both countries.
It's Up to You
Lee Stewart argues in this book that the notion of university educationas a cultural entitlement, inherent in the literal translation of theUniversity of British Columbia's motto Tuum Est as 'It isyours,' has always been more applicable to male than to femalestudents. Conversely, the popular interpretation of Tuum Est,'It's up to you,' has held greater significance for women.Stewart examines the demands, accomplishments, and limitations of womenadvocates and educators against the background of the social andcultural conditions which enveloped them.
Edinboro University Women's Association
Before its dissolution in 2010, the Edinboro University Women's Association (EUWA) had goals "to enhance the quality of life; foster friendship and sociability among the women who [constituted] its membership; and, when appropriate, to further the aims of the university." The EUWA collection consists of records, photo albums, and scrapbooks presenting the evolutionary history of the organization from a small group acting as a social outlet to an established association which met the aforementioned goals.
Women in Higher Education, 1850-1970
This edited collection illustrates the way in which women’s experiences of academe could be both contextually diverse but historically and culturally similar. It looks at both the micro (individual women and universities) and macro-level (comparative analyses among regions and countries) within regional, national, trans-national, and international contexts. The contributors integrally advance knowledge about the university in history by exploring the intersections of the lived experiences of women students and professors, practices of co-education, and intellectual and academic cultures. They also raise important questions about the complementary and multidirectional flow and exchange of a...
Warming the Climate for Women in Academic Science
This paper contends that the climate or culture of academic science has been chilly to women, ethnic minorities, and people with disabilities. The paper reviews research findings in three areas: (1) numbers of women participating in science education and careers; (2) evidence of precollege patterns for girls and women in science and math; and (3) studies on how women are faring in college as undergraduate and graduate students and as faculty members. The paper outlines the following concerns, among others: small but consistent messages and behaviors reinforce sexist expectations and decrease undergraduate women's overall sense of self-competence (although not their academic performance) in m...
Women in Academe
The role of women in higher education, as in many other settings, has undergone dramatic changes during the past two decades. This significant period of progress and transition is definitively assessed in the landmark volume, Women in Academe. Crowded out by returning veterans and pressed by social expectations to marry early and raise children, women in the 1940s and 1950s lost many of the educational gains they had made in previous decades. In the 1960s women began to catch up, and by the 1970s women were taking rapid strides in academic life. As documented in this comprehensive study, the combined impact of the women's movement and increased legislative attention to issues of equality ena...
