While women have always faced gender inequities in the general workplace, the academic world has traditionally prided itself on equality and transparency. Sadly, despite substantial gains in the number of doctorates awarded to women and in their employment in academic institutions, there is still much room for improvement in the academy. The…

Explores the often difficult but ultimately rewarding experience of being a tenure-seeking film professor at California State University. Describes a brutal workload, balancing the demands of motherhood and career advancement, and making a documentary film about the earthquake that destroyed the campus. (EV)

Argues that higher education's response to change is resulting in the disappearance of tenure, and provides a bibliography of actual institutional and faculty decisions in relation to tenure since the mid-1970s. Focus is on six issues: changes in the meaning of tenure; management of tenure decisions; financial exigency or discomfort; faculty…

While women earn more bachelor's and master's degrees than men annually, college faculty continue to be predominately male, with males more economically secure. This significantly limits the role models for women students. Faculty recruitment should focus more actively on women candidates and provide support mechanisms to retain women faculty.…

Drawing on longitudinal data from federal surveys for 1974-75 and 1992 and other studies, tenure patterns and trends are examined in 3 groups of college faculty: full-time faculty with at least 50% teaching responsibility; women faculty; and all faculty. Conclusions are drawn about the meaning of tenure, and steps to be taken in clarifying its…

The role of feminist faculty and unions in forming alliances to change the traditional academic power structure and in addressing faculty issues common to women and other groups is discussed. (MSE)

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…

There is an illusion that each of the thousands of women now teaching writing and other service courses for inadequate pay, benefits, recognition, and job security is doing so only because of her own choices or misjudgments. The illusion must be dispelled; exploitation is at the center of the phenomenon. (MSE)

The process and results of establishing collective bargaining for Rutgers University's (New Jersey) part-time faculty, largely women, are discussed. Negotiations for achievement of parity with full-time faculty through pro rata benefits and salaries, the most contested issue, are described briefly, focusing on administration resistance. (MSE)

A study examined attitudes of 95 women biomedical researchers in dual-career relationships toward mobility for enhancing occupational advancement. The women and spouses were surveyed concerning use of time, income, job satisfaction, willingness to move, and general career and marital satisfaction. Results indicate changes in gender effects on…

Issues in sexual harassment are discussed, including definitions, the experience of harassment, related behavior patterns, prevalence, beliefs, tolerance, and current research. The efforts and impact of a group of female faculty, staff, and graduate students (Women against Sexual Harassment) at the University of Rhode Island are described. (MSE)

Issues in sexual harassment for minority women, especially in the context of higher education, are examined; and the efforts of Hunter College (New York) to address harassment on campus are described. They include a sexual harassment panel, workshops, and a publication for faculty. Guidelines for similar programs are offered. (MSE)

A study compared productivity for five groups of college faculty: white men (n=3,182), white women (n=1,221), and faculty of African (n=79), Asian (n=120), and Hispanic (n=67) origin. Variables examined include research productivity, contact hours, administrative service, consulting, promotion/tenure standards, job satisfaction, and affirmative…

It is argued that colleges and universities are not, as is sometimes assumed, dominated by pressure for "political correctness." Examples of patterns in admissions and hiring practices, faculty pay, tenure, and promotion and the climate for minorities and especially women are offered as illustration of the barriers to equality in institutions of…

Analysis of the progress of women college faculty looks at trends in awarding of doctorates, academic employment patterns, promotion and tenure, academic rank and discipline, salaries, and publishing. Some comparisons are made with statistics on men faculty. Special issues in performance and evaluation that affect salary and rank are considered.…