Coping with Gender Inequities (eBook)

Critical Conversations of Women Faculty

Pam Parry, Sherwood Thompson (Herausgeber)

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2017
192 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-2647-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Women faculty, their experiences, their assessments of the commitment that is made, and the standards that are in place, can determine if there is a sincere attempt to provide wholesome and nurturing working conditions in universities. We want to learn how women faculty perceives their personal and professional lives on and off campus.

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This book provides a discussion of women faculty members' experiences on college and university campuses and examines their thoughts, perceptions, responsibilities, and status in the academy. Most specifically, this book explores the differences between male and women faculty in the academy; women faculty insight into teaching, research and service; how women faculty perceive their work environment; and the stress of faculty evaluation regarding tenure and promotion, and sharing of success stories and lessons learned. The author's intentions is to share authentic narratives of women faculty members, in their own voices. The voices that are selected for this book are from different disciplines; some participants are junior faculty while others are senior faculty. All of the participants share their eyewitness accounts of how they successfully navigated the road to the professorate.This discussion is critical at this junction in the history of higher education pertaining to gender equity. Women counterpart to male faculty members provide a very visible and meaningful role on campuses. with all of the positive roles that women faculty play on campuses, women faculty report that they are still experiencing, to some degree, less satisfaction and greater challenges than their male counterparts in many aspects of their profession.

Autor

Sherwood Thompson has attained distinction through a lengthy and productive career, directing campus-wide diversity programs for three major Carnegie Foundation Divisions-I public research universities, as well as one regional Polytechnic University. In this capacity, he has worked as a leader for university-wide diversity initiatives and multicultural programs, and he led an array of leadership positions in departments that served the academic needs of diverse students, faculty, and staff.Pam Parry is the new chairperson of the Department of Mass Media at Southeast Missouri State University. In 2016, she received the Applegate Award for Excellence in Research from the Kentucky Communication Association. She is the author of Eisenhower: The Public Relations President. She is co-editor of a book series, Women in American Political History, which is being published by Lexington Books, a subsidiary of Rowman & Littlefield.

Inhalt

Chapter 2: Achieving Tenure and Promotion- Dr. Simone C. O. Conceição of University of Wisconsin–MilwaukeeChapter 5: Women of Color in Higher Education- Dr. Carolyn A. Lin of the University of Connecticut, Dr. Diana I. Rios of the University of Connecticut and Dr. Ruth A. Washington of Kent State UniversityChapter 7: Establishing Effective Mentoring Relationships, Part I- Dr. Donna Gibson McCrary of Alabama A&M UniversityChapter 9: Debunking Myths- Dr. Crystal Renée Chambers of East Carolina University—GreenvilleChapter 11: Academic Advancement and Leadership- Dr. Keisha M. Love of Kennesaw State UniversityConclusion- Dr. Pam Parry of Eastern Kentucky University and Dr. Sherwood Thompson of Eastern Kentucky University

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 4 Illustrations including: - 4 Black & White Illustrations.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Professors of Color
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-2647-8 / 1475826478
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-2647-0 / 9781475826470