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Disrupting the Culture of Silence: Confronting Gender Inequality and Making Change in Higher Education
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De Welde, Kristine, Ed.; Stepnick, Andi, Ed. – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2014
Despite tremendous progress toward gender equality and equity in institutions of higher education, deep patterns of discrimination against women in the academy persist. From the "chilly climate" to the "old boys' club," women academics must navigate structures and cultures that continue to marginalize, penalize, and undermine…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Gender Bias, Guides, Equal Education
Breaking Anonymity: The Chilly Climate for Women Faculty.
1995
This collection of 12 essays focuses on the often hostile climate that many women face on Canadian college and university campuses. Several essays concentrate on experiences of women faculty, students, and employees at the University of Western Ontario (Canada). The essays are: (1) "Introduction--Surviving the Contradictions: Personal Notes…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Colleges, Educational Environment, Educational Policy
Gender and Education. Ninety-Second Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Education. Part I.
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Biklen, Sari Knopp, Ed.; Pollard, Diane, Ed. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 1993
This yearbook provides an overview of scholarship in the area of gender in education. A feminist point of view characterizes the approach, recognizing the pluralism of the feminist movement. A recurrent theme is that considerations of gender are not complete without recognition of other factors. Chapters include: (1) "Sex, Gender, Feminism, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Adolescents, Cultural Differences
The Employment Context. The Impact of the Law on the Lives of Women. Gender and American Law Series, No. 3.
Maschke, Karen J., Ed. – 1997
This book contains the following 14 articles on the effects of law on women in the United States: "Protection of Women Workers and the Courts: A Legal Case History" (Ann Corinne Hill); "Sexual Harassment and Race: A Legal Analysis of Discrimination" (Judy Trent Ellis); "Comparable Worth: Is This a Theory for Black Workers?" (Judy Scales-Trent);…
Descriptors: Adults, Civil Law, Civil Rights Legislation, Compliance (Legal)
Women: A Feminist Perspective. Third Edition.
Freeman, Jo, Ed. – 1984
Feminist issues are discussed in 33 scholarly articles that cover the following areas: the body and its control, the family, growing up female, the working woman, institutions of social control, and historical and contemporary developments in feminism. Titles and authors include: "Sexual Terrorism" (Carole J. Sheffield); "The Rape Culture" (Dianne…
Descriptors: Abortions, Clerical Workers, Day Care, Displaced Homemakers
Feminist Academics: Creative Agents for Change.
Morley, Louise, Ed.; Walsh, Val, Ed. – 1995
This collection of 13 essays and 1 poem demonstrates how feminist analysis of the micropolitics of British higher education in terms of power, policies, discourses, curriculum, pedagogy, and intra- and interpersonal relationships provides a framework for deprivatizing women's experiences and influencing change. It includes: (1) "Troubling…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Blacks, Career Development, College Faculty
The Jossey-Bass Reader on Gender in Education. The Jossey-Bass Education Series.
2002
These papers examine various perspectives on the gender debate in education: (1) "'Too Strong for a Woman': The Five Words That Created Title IX" (Bernice R. Sandler); (2) "Feminists Discover the Hidden Injuries of Coeducation" (David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot); (3) "Images of Relationship" (Carol Gilligan); (4)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Bullying, Coeducation