The Status of Academic Women: An Assessment of Five Competing Explanations
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Project MUSE in The Review of Higher Education
- Vol. 7 (3) , 223-246
- https://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.1984.0015
Abstract
On the assumption that a dispassionate understanding of the sources of male-female status differentials provide a surer guide to equity-oriented policy, this essay identifies five alternative explanations of the differential status of academic women and brings the weight of extant empirical evidence from a large number of studies to bear in testing the relative power of each.Keywords
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