Women Flock to Graduate School in Record Numbers, but Fewer Blacks Are Entering the Academic Pipeline: Women.

McMillen, Liz

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Publication Date: 1986

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Women Flock to Graduate School in Record Numbers, but Fewer Blacks Are Entering the Academic Pipeline: Women.

McMillen, Liz

Chronicle of Higher Education, v33 n2 p1,25 Sep 10 1986

Many academic administrators consider the future job market "a golden opportunity" for universities to increase the representation of women on their faculties. However, lingering sexual bias in hiring and promotion decisions, as well as a shortage of women with doctorates in scientific fields, may cloud that promise. (MLW)

Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Career Choice, Career Development, College Faculty, Doctoral Degrees, Engineering, Enrollment Trends, Females, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Mathematics, Professors, Sciences, Scientists, Sex Discrimination, Student Recruitment, Women Faculty

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