Coping with Gender Inequities

Critical Conversations of Women Faculty

Edited by Sherwood Thompson, Pam Parry

Publication date:

23 June 2017

Length of book:

192 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781475826456

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.

Dedication
Foreword by Dr. Kim M. LeDuff, Ph.D.
Acknowledgments
Introduction- Dr. Sherwood Thompson of Eastern Kentucky University, and Dr. Pam Parry of Eastern Kentucky University
Chapter 1: ‘Particularly’ Good for the Women- Dr. Ginny Whitehouse of Eastern Kentucky University and Senior Lecturer Krista Kimmel of Eastern Kentucky University
Chapter 2: Achieving Tenure and Promotion- Dr. Simone C. O. Conceição of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Chapter 3: Family-friendly Working Conditions- Dr. Karen Christopher of the University of Louisville
Chapter 4: Faculty Perspectives of Teaching Online- Dr. Shirley Peganoff O’Brien of Eastern Kentucky University
Chapter 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 University
Chapter 6: Faculty of Color and Student Relations- Dr. Edith Fraser of Alabama A & M University (Retired)
Chapter 7: Establishing Effective Mentoring Relationships, Part I- Dr. Donna Gibson McCrary of Alabama A&M University
Chapter 8: Establishing Effective Mentoring Relationships, Part II- Dr. Martina Nieswandt of the University of Massachusetts—Amherst
Chapter 9: Debunking Myths- Dr. Crystal Renée Chambers of East Carolina University—Greenville
Chapter 10: Triumvirate of Academia- Dr. Rebecca Fredrickson of Texas Woman’s University, Dr. Sarah McMahan of Texas Woman’s University, and Dr. Holly Hansen-Thomas of Texas Woman’s University
Chapter 11: Academic Advancement and Leadership- Dr. Keisha M. Love of Kennesaw State University
Chapter 12: Injustice Revealed- Dr. Doris L. Crawford of Ideal Educational Concepts and Solutions, LLC
Chapter 13: Brown Girls in the Ivory Tower- Dr. Janaka B. Lewis of University of North Carolina—Charlotte
Conclusion- Dr. Pam Parry of Eastern Kentucky University and Dr. Sherwood Thompson of Eastern Kentucky University

This riveting and very important collection of personal accounts is a much needed work that focuses on the daily struggles women faculty have had to overcome in higher education. While the stories are inspiring and thought-provoking, ‘Coping with Gender Inequities...’ makes a valid and timely argument that there remains a vast amount of work that needs to be done in terms inclusion and equity for women in the Academy. It clearly outlines the hegemonic power structures females, as graduate students and later as female faculty, have had to navigate through to cope with gender biases, salary gaps, tenure and promotion discrepancies, uneven workloads, and lack of appreciation and recognition. Readers inside and outside of higher ed will appreciate this collection and will find it applicable.