The article offers a cursory look at how women faculty members in public community colleges perceive their career opportunities, what their advancement possibilities and career aspirations are, and how they see the dual role of managing home and career. (Author/MW)

Personal, educational and professional data were collected and analyzed about 27 women administrators in top-level administrative positions. A semistructured personal interview was conducted with 20 of the 27 who were in positions that fall within the first three highest-ranking administrative positions in the nine institutions of higher education…

Gifted adolescent females (N=122) in a seminar on careers and intellectual opportunities for women were surveyed for attitudes toward gender equality. Although 75 percent of the sample strongly agreed that women should expect equality in professional and academic domains, belief in equality in dating, marriage, and etiquette was far more variable.…

Attitudes about the role of women in higher education were examined in this research study that surveyed (1) opinions and attitudes of selected faculty men toward faculty women, and (2) opinions and attitudes of selected faculty women toward other faculty women. The population surveyed was all full-time faculty of the institutions of higher…

Discusses the role of the affirmative action officer in the university setting and outlines several ways in which other women on campus can offer support to make the officer more effective. (HMV)

In the spring of 1974, the Program in Comparative Culture offered a class entitled "Women in Higher Education." Out of that class, which explored the traditional values of education and employment and their effect on women in academia, came a series of questions concerning the status of women on the Irving campus. This handbook is the final result…

A study examined the impact of new technology upon women's employment in West Yorkshire in Great Britain. During the study, 2,000 copies of a questionnaire were distributed to past and present users of the Leeds Trade Union and Community Resource and Information Centre (TUCRIC) as well as to participants at a conference entitled Women and New…

A study of the 184 chemistry departments in the United States that offered the Ph.D. degree in 1973 showed that two-thirds had no women on their faculties. Other statistics concerning women's representation on chemistry faculties are presented and discussed. (DT)

The present survey aimed to find out the opinion of employers on how women performed in employment interviews. The question raised was, "Are there any behaviors more common to women than men that are considered undesirable in an applicant and thus are hindering women applicants' chances of being hired?" An eight-page questionnaire was prepared to…

Under the auspices of the American Association of School Administrators and the Ford Foundation, Project AWARE (Assisting Women to Advance through Resources and Encouragement) in 1981 surveyed the United States territories as well as all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Data were gathered from chief state school officers on school…

A survey of 4,317 secondary school students in Washington State produced findings that differential labor market opportunities for adolescent students exist for groups with different characteristics. Specific findings include the fact that adolescent females experience the same wage gap as their older counterparts. (CH)

The Working Group on Women in Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) subcontracted with the American Institute of Physics to conduct an international study of women in physics in two phases. The first part was a benchmarking study to identify reliable sources and collect data on the representation of women in…

Committee W on the Status of Women in the Academic Profession of the New Jersey state conference of the American Association of University Professors, distributed a questionnaire to fifty public and private, four-year and two-year college and university presidents in New Jersey. The questionnaire was designed to gather information about the…