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Shattering the Myths

Women in Academe

Judith Glazer-Raymo
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Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award of the Post-secondary Education Division of the American Educational Research Association

In Shattering the Myths, Judith Glazer-Raymo uses a critical feminist perspective to examine women's progress in higher education since 1970. She contrasts the activism of the 1970s, the passivity of the 1980s, and the ambivalence and antipathy demonstrated toward feminism in the 1990s. These waves of change, she explains, were brought about by external forces, by generational differences among women, and by intellectual and ideological struggles within the women...

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Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award of the Post-secondary Education Division of the American Educational Research Association

In Shattering the Myths, Judith Glazer-Raymo uses a critical feminist perspective to examine women's progress in higher education since 1970. She contrasts the activism of the 1970s, the passivity of the 1980s, and the ambivalence and antipathy demonstrated toward feminism in the 1990s. These waves of change, she explains, were brought about by external forces, by generational differences among women, and by intellectual and ideological struggles within the women's movement and the larger academic culture. In tracing three decades of women's progress in the academy, the author provides data from a variety of sources on women's rank, salary, employment status, and education. The book also draws on the experience of women faculty and administrators as they articulate and reflect on the social, economic, political, and ideological contexts in which they work and the multiple influences on their professional and personal lives.

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An extremely important book... Glazer-Raymo demonstrates that although gender discrimination has evolved and now appears in different forms, it nonetheless remains a characteristic feature of academe, and women academics continue to pay a disproportionate price.

— Florence A. Hamrick, Journal of Higher Education

[Glazer-Raymo] blends a life history approach with the current statistical results of large research studies.

— NWSA Journal

I highly recommend this book. It is useful for everyone in higher education, particularly for women who may find the information and stories resonating with their own lives. The author successfully deconstructs higher education using a feminist perspective and provides suggestions for future action.

— Community College Journal of Research and Practice

An insightful and critical analysis of the status of women in higher education during the past 25 years.

— Carol J. Auster, Gender and Society

Shattering the Myths is an unsettling book for women and should be the same for men. In essence, little has changed in the last 30 years to substantively improve the status of women in higher education and other professions or the cultural underpinnings that would make status advancement possible... Well researched.

— Susan R. Griffith, Planning for Higher Education
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Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
The Personal and the Professional: Becoming a Feminist
The Academic Pipeline and the Academic Labor Market
Leveling the Playing Field: Tenure and Salaries
Women in the Professions
Wo

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Preface
Acknowledgments
The Personal and the Professional: Becoming a Feminist
The Academic Pipeline and the Academic Labor Market
Leveling the Playing Field: Tenure and Salaries
Women in the Professions
Women Who Lead: The Glass Ceiling Phenomenon
Implementing Change: Campus Commissions and Feminist Pedagogy
Conclusions
References
Index

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Judith Glazer-Raymo

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.
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