Institutions of higher education have created a career structure that clusters women in tracks at the bottom of many career ladders. The Leaders in Transition Project, initiated in 1981 to construct a national profile of college administrators, is described. (Author/MLW)

The task of building the future professoriate can be facilitated by giving attention to important dimensions of affirmative action developed since 1972. Institutional researchers can help satisfy legal mandates on affirmative action and fulfill ethical and moral commitments to equity while meeting the unique needs of their institutions.…

A brief history of academic women in the nineteenth century illustrates the potential for creatively merging historical analysis and contemporary social theory to examine higher education as an organization. Concepts of power, influence, and organizational change are used to give new perspectives to traditional historical study. (MSE)

Surveys access and opportunity issues for women in higher education and presents data and research examples that reveal concerns that span national boundaries. Topics include distribution of women students and faculty in various countries, the careers of women faculty and researchers, and women academics as leaders and policymakers. (JHZ)

The role of women as higher education faculty and administrators is investigated in this portion of a review of the literature on academic women since 1970. The various types and orientations of the studies reviewed are discussed and analyzed. The topic of sex discrimination was found to dominate a majority of the research on faculty women. Two…

A bibliography covering the period 1970 to 1979 provides information on research on academic women reported in journals and published and unpublished report literature. The first chapter is an overview of the research and methodological notes. The following chapters provide citations and annotations for literature in these areas: historical and…