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Coping with Gender Inequities
Critical Conversations of Women Faculty
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2017
Summary
This book provides a discussion of women faculty members’ experiences on college and university campuses and examines their thoughts, perceptions, responsibilities, and status in the academy. Most specifically, this book explores the differences between male and women faculty in the academy; women faculty insight into teaching, research and service; how women faculty perceive their work environment; and the stress of faculty evaluation regarding tenure and promotion, and sharing of success stories and lessons learned.
The author’s intentions is to share authentic narratives of women faculty members, in their own voices. The voices that are selected for this book are from different disciplines; some participants are junior faculty while others are senior faculty. All of the participants share their eyewitness accounts of how they successfully navigated the road to the professorate.
This discussion is critical at this junction in the history of higher education pertaining to gender equity. Women counterpart to male faculty members provide a very visible and meaningful role on campuses. with all of the positive roles that women faculty play on campuses, women faculty report that they are still experiencing, to some degree, less satisfaction and greater challenges than their male counterparts in many aspects of their profession.
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Copyright year
2017
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-2645-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-2647-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
180
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
Chapter One: “Particularly” Good for the Women: “Differend” in the Academy No access Pages 5 - 16
Chapter Two: Achieving Tenure and Promotion No access Pages 17 - 30
Chapter Three: Family-Friendly Working Conditions No access Pages 31 - 42
Chapter Four: Faculty Perspectives of Teaching Online No access Pages 43 - 56
Chapter Five: Women of Color in Higher Education No access Pages 57 - 70
Chapter Six: Faculty of Color and Student Relations No access Pages 71 - 76
Chapter Seven: Establishing Effective Mentoring Relationships, Part I No access Pages 77 - 88
Chapter Eight: Establishing Effective Mentoring Relationships, Part II No access Pages 89 - 104
Chapter Nine: Debunking Myths: Academic Community Members’ Perspectives on Black Women Faculty No access Pages 105 - 122
Chapter Ten: Triumvirate of Academia No access Pages 123 - 136
Chapter Eleven: Academic Advancement and Leadership No access Pages 137 - 148
Chapter Twelve: Injustice Revealed No access Pages 149 - 158
Chapter Thirteen: Brown Girls in the Ivory Tower: Reflections on Race, Gender, and Coming of Age in Academia No access Pages 159 - 170
