Unfinished Agendas: New and Continuing Gender Challenges in Higher Education

by Judith Glazer-Raymo

Overview

This revealing volume examines the current role and status of women in higher education—and suggests a direction for the future. Judith Glazer-Raymo and other distinguished scholars and administrators assess the progress of women in academe using three lenses: the feminist agenda as a work in progress, growing internal and external challenges to women’s advancement, and the need for active engagement with the challenges at hand.

Drawing on the latest research, the contributors explore issues faced by women as newly minted Ph.D.s, as faculty members, as administrators, and as academic leaders. They describe women's struggles with the multiple and often conflicting demands of productivity, accountability, family-work responsibility, and the subconscious “dance of identities” within a variety of cultural contexts.

Shedding light on the past, present, and future of women in higher education, this authoritative book concludes with recommendations for meeting new and ongoing gender challenges in the next decade.

Contributors: Ana M. Martínez Alemán, Boston College; Rita Bornstein, Rollins College; M. Kate Callahan, Temple University; Judith Glazer-Raymo, Teachers College, Columbia University; Steven Hubbard, New York University; Kimberley LeChasseur, Temple University; Amy Scott Metcalfe, University of British Columbia; Anna Neumann, Teachers College, Columbia University; Tamsyn Phifer, Teachers College, Columbia University; Becky Ropers-Huilman, University of Minnesota; Kathleen M. Shaw, Pennsylvania Department of Education; Sheila Slaughter, University of Georgia; Frances K. Stage, New York University; Aimee LaPointe Terosky, Teachers College, Columbia University; Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, Arizona State University; Kelly Ward, Washington State University; Lisa Wolf-Wendel, University of Kansas

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801888625
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	06/30/2008
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Judith Glazer-Raymo is a lecturer and fellow of the Higher and Postsecondary Education Program, Teachers College, Columbia University; a professor of education emerita at Long Island University. She is the recipient of the 2007 Leadership Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the author of Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Feminist Agenda: A Work in Progress
Chapter 2. Women Faculty and the Dance of Identities: Constructing Self and Privilege within Community
Chapter 3. Shattering Plexiglas: Continuing Challenges for Women Professors in Research Universities
Chapter 4. The Differential Effects of Academic Capitalism on Women in the Academy
Chapter 5. Developing Women Scientists: Baccalaureate Origins of Recent Mathematics and Science Doctorates
Chapter 6. Faculty Productivity and the Gender Question
Chapter 7. Women and the College Presidency
Chapter 8. Women on Governing Boards: Why Gender Matters
Chapter 9. Female Faculty in the Community College: Approaching Equity in a Low-Status Sector
Chapter 10. Women of Color in Academe: Experiences of the Often Invisible
Chapter 11. Choice and Discourse in Faculty Careers: Feminist Perspectives on Work and Family
Epilogue
Contributors
Index

Editorial Reviews

This excellent volume offers a sobering assessment of women's situation in higher education.

Choice

Masterfully handled . . . This book, published in the midst of a period of extreme financial turbulence, is a fine portrait of a set of institutions whose contribution to the students it serves may need reviewing.

Times Higher Education - S.L. Sutherland

Unfinished Agendas is a worthwhile book.

CAUT Bulletin - Judy Haiven

This excellent volume offers a sobering assessment of women's situation in higher education.
—Choice

Unfinished Agendas is an impressive follow-up to Glazer- Raymo’s 1999 book Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe . . . This book achieves satisfying breadth without watering down what is a vitally important—and complex—topic for those concerned about the future of the academic workforce.
—Melissa McDaniels, Academe

Masterfully handled . . . This book, published in the midst of a period of extreme financial turbulence, is a fine portrait of a set of institutions whose contribution to the students it serves may need reviewing.
—S.L. Sutherland, Times Higher Education

Unfinished Agendas is a book that any scholar, leader, student, and staff member in higher education should read. Not only does the book provide valuable insight into the position of women . . . it also provides practical recommendations of ways to alter policies, discourses, practices, and cultures to move higher education in a more pluralistic direction.
—Linda Serra Hagedorn, Journal of College Student Retention

Unfinished Agendas is a worthwhile book.
—Judy Haiven, CAUT Bulletin

From the Publisher

Unfinished Agendas is a book that any scholar, leader, student, and staff member in higher education should read. Not only does the book provide valuable insight into the position of women . . . it also provides practical recommendations of ways to alter policies, discourses, practices, and cultures to move higher education in a more pluralistic direction.

Journal of College Student Retention - Linda Serra Hagedorn

Unfinished Agendas is an impressive follow-up to Glazer- Raymo’s 1999 book Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe . . . This book achieves satisfying breadth without watering down what is a vitally important—and complex—topic for those concerned about the future of the academic workforce.

Academe - Melissa McDaniels

Unfinished Agendas is a worthwhile book.

— Judy Haiven

CAUT Bulletin

Unfinished Agendas is a book that any scholar, leader, student, and staff member in higher education should read. Not only does the book provide valuable insight into the position of women... it also provides practical recommendations of ways to alter policies, discourses, practices, and cultures to move higher education in a more pluralistic direction.

— Linda Serra Hagedorn

Journal of College Student Retention

Masterfully handled... This book, published in the midst of a period of extreme financial turbulence, is a fine portrait of a set of institutions whose contribution to the students it serves may need reviewing.

— S.L. Sutherland

Times Higher Education

Unfinished Agendas is an impressive follow-up to Glazer- Raymo’s 1999 book Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe... This book achieves satisfying breadth without watering down what is a vitally important—and complex—topic for those concerned about the future of the academic workforce.

— Melissa McDaniels

Academe