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Hensel, Nancy – 1991
This brief report summarizes a longer report with the same title. It examines the problems of the increasingly severe shortage of qualified teachers in American higher education and the need to recruit large numbers of new faculty during the next decade and, as the potential solution to both problems, the recruiting of women to fill these faculty…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Colleges, Educational Demand, Educational Resources
Hensel, Nancy – 1991
This monograph examines gender differences and related issues in higher education faculty and proposes steps to change the current climate to resolve gender inequalities, solve the impending shortage of faculty, and improve diversity among faculty. A look at the status of women in academia finds that women are an under-represented group in tenured…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Faculty College Relationship, Faculty Promotion
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Hensel, Nancy – Thought and Action, 1989
Many women find it difficult to reconcile the responsibilities of a career and a family. Issues discussed are: sexual discrimination on campus, women faculty members less productive than male colleagues and therefore less qualified for promotion, family responsibilities restricting women's opportunities for advancement, the 1978 Pregnancy…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, College Faculty, Higher Education, Parent Role