The Academic Climate for Women, 1973-1996: Any Change?.

Gorrell, Lorraine

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ERIC Number: EJ540542

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Publication Date: 1996

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The Academic Climate for Women, 1973-1996: Any Change?

Gorrell, Lorraine

Initiatives, v57 n4 p29-33 1996

Account of one woman's climb to full professorship after over 20 years of teaching. Greeted with an icy reception at a midsize southern college, this Ivy League graduate was reluctantly hired in 1973. Recounts various specific instances of sex discrimination endured by the only full-time female professional in the music department. (LSR)

Descriptors: College Faculty, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Faculty College Relationship, Females, Higher Education, Interprofessional Relationship, Power Structure, Professional Isolation, Quality of Working Life, Sex Bias, Sex Discrimination, Teaching Conditions, Women Faculty, Work Environment

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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