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ERIC Number: EJ572070
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1998
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Sex, Schemas, and Success: What's Keeping Women Back?
Valian, Virginia.
Academe, v84 n5 p50-55 Sep-Oct 1998
Examines cognitive processes that distort judgments about men and women thus perpetuating discriminatory practices in the professions and in academe. Cites studies of salary, rank, and tenure discrepancies and notes various unarticulated beliefs about gender that present obstacles to women's advancement. Affirmative action and institutional reforms are seen as ways to eliminate gender inequities. (CH)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Affirmative Action, College Faculty, Educational Environment, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Faculty College Relationship, Females, Higher Education, Legal Responsibility, Personnel Policy, Politics of Education, Salary Wage Differentials, Sex Bias, Sex Discrimination, Tenure, Women Faculty
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Administrators; Practitioners
Language: English
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