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Direct linkCarla Hamilton-Yates – ProQuest LLC, 2024
African-American women face substantial career barriers when seeking ascension to educational leadership. Numerous factors contribute to career advancement barriers, such as systemic, institutional challenges, organizational factors, personality, and individual contributors. Various systemic and managerial aspects, directly and indirectly, were…
Descriptors: African American Leadership, African Americans, Women Administrators, Public Schools
Download full textHegewisch, Ariane; Mefferd, Eve – Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2021
Careers in the construction trades can provide high earnings and good benefits, often through a learn-while-you-earn apprenticeship. In 2020, more than 300,000 women worked in the trades--the largest number ever. Yet while their numbers are growing, women still make up fewer than one in twenty of workers in construction occupations. This report…
Descriptors: Building Trades, Females, Experience, Sexual Identity
Lindquist, Christine; McKay, Tasseli – RTI International, 2018
In a qualitative study of 40 women faculty in sciences, engineering, and medicine, respondents at all career levels and fields reported a range of sexual harassment experiences, including gender-based harassment (e.g., gendered insults, lewd comments), unwanted sexual advances, stalking, and sexual assault by a colleague. Sexual harassment…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Women Faculty, Females, Science Education
Laursen, Sandra; Austin, Ann E. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020
Despite decades of effort by federal science funders to increase the numbers of women holding advanced degrees and faculty jobs in science and engineering, they are persistently underrepresented in academic STEM disciplines, especially in positions of seniority, leadership, and prestige. Women filled 47% of all US jobs in 2015, but held only 24%…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Females, Change Strategies, Science Education
American Association of University Women, 2014
It's been said that men are paid more than women are paid over their lifetimes. But what does that mean? Are women paid less because they choose lower-paying jobs? Is it because more women work part time than men do? Or is it because women tend to be the primary caregivers for their children? AAUW's "The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Gender Discrimination, Comparable Worth, Salary Wage Differentials
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
Peer reviewedDeSole, Gloria; Butler, Meredith – Initiatives, 1990
Reviews status of and climate for women in higher education today and presents case for creating strong, carefully constructed and integrated institutional network of women's committees as one way to foster institutional change and create more diverse and responsive educational and work environments which actively support, nurture, and empower…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, Educational Administration, Females
Iverson, Maynard J. – 1983
A study investigated the nature and extent of sexual harassment among vocational educators of both sexes in the Southeastern United States. Other objectives of the study were to assess the policies and procedures available for employees and to develop guidelines for dealing with the problem. After mailing questionnaires to a 5 percent random…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Females, Males
Bowers, Ellen; Hummel, Judythe – 1979
The three purposes of a literature review were to (1) document factors relating to the underrepresentation of women in vocational education administration, (2) establish a sound data base for dissemination, and (3) encourage other project and program work toward attaining sex equity in vocational education administration. Ten interpersonal factors…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administrators, Change Strategies, Employers
Thomas, Leathia S.; Dickey, Sandy – 1974
The two-year report of the WAGES project (Women and Girls Employment Enabling Service) documents the growth, problems, and success experienced through efforts to open nontraditional fields of employment to women by way of a community-based program in Memphis, Tennessee. Staff and volunteers provided counseling and referrals to applicants. Personal…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Community Services, Counseling Services
Moran, Patricia; And Others – 1986
A study examined the measures taken in seven colleges in the Hunter Region of New South Wales to promote the entry of women into nontraditional trades. Questionnaires were given to all female apprentices in nontraditional trades and a random sample of male apprentices in the same trades in 1983; all female apprentices who withdrew from training in…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Counseling, Change Strategies, Educational Improvement
Liggett, Twila Christensen; And Others – 1982
These learning modules are designed to assist counseling or teacher education students in acquiring a basic understanding of sex-role stereotyping as it relates to career choice and development. Various information pertaining to conducting the course is presented, including assumptions underlying the course, its format, and support materials.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Behavioral Objectives, Career Choice, Career Development
