Gender Equity or Bust! : On the Road to Campus Leadership with Women in Higher Education

by Mary Dee Wenniger; Mary Helen Conroy

• ISBN13: 9780787952846
• ISBN10: 0787952842
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780787959982
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Summary

Gender battles still rage on most college and university campuses today. For eight years, Women in Higher Education has reported women's strategic advances in the academy. Its goal is to enlighten, encourage, empower, and enrage women administrators, faculty, and students in higher education.This book is a compendium of lively, hard-hitting articles from the successful newsletter. Its thematic sections blend serious commentary, research results, and practical advice with wry humor. Readers will find a broad view of recent progress as well as effective strategies from women who have changed the academy. Topics include women's leadership and management styles and strategies, valuing the self, sex and sexuality, playing politics, and much more. Filled with wisdom drawn from real-world experience, "Gender Equity or Bust!" illuminates what women can do to transform the culture of higher education into one that honors their values and contributions.

Author Biography

MARY DEE WENNIGER is the founder of the international newsletter Women in Higher Education.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
Lesley A. Diehl
Preface	xvii
Bill of Rights for Women in Higher Education	xxi
Abbreviations	xxiii
The Editors	xxv
Current Road Conditions for Women Drivers	1	(8)
In the Driver's Seat: Women as Leaders	9	(58)
Driver's Ed: Developing Leadership Skills	67	(72)
Reading the Map of Your Career 101	139	(34)
Roadblocks and Road Rage	173	(36)
Sex on the Road	209	(24)
The Driver Within	233	(28)
Are We There Yet?	261	(28)
Epilogue	289	(2)
References	291	(2)
Index	293