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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825094603321

Titolo

Disrupting the culture of silence : confronting gender inequality and making change in higher education / / edited by Kristine De Welde and Andi Stepnick ; foreword by Penny A. Pasque

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sterling, Virginia : , : Stylus, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-62036-219-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (394 pages)

Disciplina

378.0082

Soggetti

Sex discrimination in higher education - United States

Women college teachers - United States

Women college administrators - United States

Universities and colleges - Faculty - Employment - Sex differences - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

From people to policies : enduring inequalities and inequities for women academics / Kris De Welde, and Andi Stepnick -- Glass ceilings and gated communities in higher education / Robert J. Hironimus-Wendt and Doreen A. Dedjoe -- Challenges of race and gender for black women in the academy / Candice P. Baldwin and Monica D. Griffin -- Contingent appointments and the diminishing voice, agency, and professionalism of women / Cecile H. Sam and Adrianna Kezar -- Faculty gender inequity and the 'just say no to service' fairytale / Karen Pyke -- The influence of departmental culture on academic parents' and pro-work behaviors / Julie Kmec, Amy Wharton, and Shanyuan Foo -- Assimilating to the norm : academic women's experiences with work/family policies / Catherine Richards Solomon -- The eldercare crisis and implications for women faculty / Gretal Leibnitz and Briana Morrison -- Perpetuating inequality through the canons of disciplinary knowledge / Barret Katuna -- Characteristics and perceptions of women of color faculty nationally / Corrine Castro -- Women sociologists and the question of inclusion in the academy / Kristin Marsh -- Not the ideal professor : gender in the academy / Laura



Hirshfield -- Intersectional invisibility and the academic work experience of lesbian faculty / Diana Bilimoria and Abigail J. Stewart -- Gender differences in faculty responses to contrapower harassment / Claudia Lampman -- Confronting faculty incivility and mobbing / Amy Blackstone and Susan K. Gardner -- From trauma to transformation for women of color in the academy / Molly Davis, Halaevalu F. Ofehengaue Vakalahi, and Renay Scales -- Multiple perspectives for creating change in the academy / Elizabeth Allan -- With so many problems, where do we begin? : building a toolbox for change / Abby L. Ferber.