Being a Token Black Female Faculty Member in Physics: Exploring Research on Gendered Racism, Identity Shifting as a Coping Strategy, and Inclusivity in Physics

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 335-337
Author(s):  
Danielle Dickens ◽  
Maria Jones ◽  
Naomi Hall
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Member ◽  
Coping Strategy ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Female Faculty ◽  
Gendered Racism ◽  
Female Faculty Member

Mavericks and Mavens of Business History: Miriam Beard and Henrietta Larson

2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 687-768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary A. Yeager
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Member ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Business History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Female Faculty ◽  
First Lady ◽  
Female Faculty Member ◽  
History Of

This is the story of two women with differing visions about business who have largely been forgotten. Miriam Beard, the maverick daughter of Progressive reformers Charles and Mary Beard, wrote the first international cultural history of the businessman in 1938. Henrietta M. Larson was Harvard Business School's first lady, the first female faculty member and the first woman to be tenured there. The two women never met or interacted. Yet their lives and histories were entangled when one woman, Henrietta, wrote a critical review about the contributions of the other. This article uses their untold story to trace the contentious process of professionalization that sidelined one maverick outsider and kept a maven insider on the margins of a fledgling discipline she had helped to create. Its significance is to make gender central to the reintegration of business and culture and of women's roles in the historiography of business.

scholarly journals Human Capital or Cultural Taxation: What Accounts for Differences in Tenure and Promotion of Racialized and Female Faculty?

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-75
Author(s):  
Rochelle Wijesingha ◽  
Howard Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Human Capital Theory ◽  
Female Faculty ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Academic System ◽  
Original Survey

Achieving tenure and promotion are significant milestones in the career of a university faculty member. However, research often indicates that racialized and female faculty do not achieve tenure and promotion at the same rate as their non-racialized and male counterparts. Using new original survey data on faculty in eight Canadian universities, this paper examines differences in tenure and promotion among racialized and female faculty  and investigates the extent to which explanations of human capital theory and cultural or identity taxation account for these disparities. Logistic regression confirms that controlling for human capital and cultural or identity taxation washes away the differences between male and female faculty for achieving both tenure and promotion. However, differences for racialized faculty remain, thereby offering evidence of discrimination in the academic system. 

The Gender Composition and Scholarly Performance of Economics Departments: A Test for Employment Discrimination

ILR Review ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Van W. Kolpin ◽  
Larry D. Singell
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Employment Discrimination ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Gender Composition ◽  
Female Faculty ◽  
Initial Analysis ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Using Data

Using data on academic economists in the years 1973, 1977, 1982, and 1987, the authors investigate gender differences in placement and their consequences for departmental productivity. The initial analysis shows that in the years studied, the departments that were highest-ranked on a measure of scholarly publications per faculty member were the least likely to hire female faculty. A second analysis shows that departments that hired fewer women in the 1970s subsequently declined in publications rank relative to other departments. Finally, in a third analysis the authors find that the research output of women in the 1970s cohort of economists was greater than that of their male counterparts at comparable institutions. These results reject productivity-based explanations for the observed differential placement, and they provide some of the first formal evidence that employment discrimination is costly to the employer.

scholarly journals Human Capital or Cultural Taxation: What Accounts for Differences in Tenure and Promotion of Racialized and Female Faculty?

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rochelle Wijesingha ◽  
Howard Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Human Capital Theory ◽  
Female Faculty ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Academic System ◽  
Original Survey

Achieving tenure and promotion are significant milestones in the career of a university faculty member. However, research often indicates that racialized and female faculty do not achieve tenure and promotion at the same rate as their non-racialized and male counterparts. Using new original survey data on faculty in eight Canadian universities, this paper examines differences in tenure and promotion among racialized and female faculty  and investigates the extent to which explanations of human capital theory and cultural or identity taxation account for these disparities. Logistic regression confirms that controlling for human capital and cultural or identity taxation washes away the differences between male and female faculty for achieving both tenure and promotion. However, differences for racialized faculty remain, thereby offering evidence of discrimination in the academic system.

scholarly journals Letters to Grandma: A Comparison of Generational Perspectives of Women's Growth as Higher Education Faculty

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elyn Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Member ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Female Faculty ◽  
Older Woman ◽  
Academic Environments ◽  
Young Faculty Member ◽  
Texas Tech University ◽  
Current Student ◽  
A Current

This ethnographic compilation is the result of a course exercise in qualitative research. A current student of Texas Tech University interviewed an 87-yearold faculty member from the 1950s, comparing her experiences to those of the author in similar, present-day academic environments. The author developed the format of the paper as letters between a young faculty member and her experienced grandmother. Results of the study reflect many similarities between the experiences of past female faculty members and female faculty of today; the exercise does convey, however, many advances for women in the academic culture as well. Finally, the recorded experiences of the older woman support those scenarios highlighted in the study of higher education’s history.

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