Faculty often talk about how busy, overwhelmed, and stressed they are. These qualities are seen as badges of honor in a capitalist culture that values productivity above all else. But for many women in higher education, exhaustion and stress go far deeper than end-of-the-semester malaise. Burnout, a mental health syndrome caused by chronic…

Discusses advantages and disadvantages of various types of career-supportive relationships that make up academic women's webs of intellectual, social, personal, and political ties, including formal mentoring, networking, and peer-support programs. Several strategies rooted in each of these models are presented, based on a review of current…

Not only are women underrepresented in educational administration, they are disproportionately underrepresented in line for administrative roles as compared with female representation in staff positions. Women, with their human relations perspectives, dominate staff development jobs; however, it is the assistant principal rather than the…

Proceedings of a workshop on career advancement for women faculty members and administrators within the University System of Georgia are presented. The workshop was a vehicle for faculty development and an experience in networking. Topics include professional writing in science, the humanities, and education; strategies for academic promotion, and…

Women's participation in school administration is low and actually declining, despite legislation, affirmative action, and special programs. This article views the research guiding educational policy as useful, but concerned with ancillary issues. After a literature review of sex discrimination, administrator gender differences, role conflicts,…

Offers practical suggestions as to how the academic dean in a college or university can provide opportunities to women and minority faculty, even given current fiscal conditions. Discusses: (1) the screening and search process; (2) strategies for recruiting faculty; (3) strategies for coping with retrenchment; and (4) other strategies which…

Five types of power (reward, coercive, legitimate, referent, and expert) and seven self-development strategies for female African American faculty are discussed. Strategies include: developing a maturing system, transferring results of change to long-term purposes, linking lifelong learning to self-discovery, risking failure to learn, maintaining…

Using humor and examples from real-life experience, the book provides advice and information in question-and-answer form for women regarding all aspects of work life in higher education. Chapters cover: graduate school as a rite of passage, and discussions of the demands of graduate study and the commitments required; strategies for finding and…

Describes barriers encountered by Black women in sports and presents strategies to help them confront career obstacles while obtaining and remaining in athletic and administrative positions. Obstacles include inadequate salary, lack of support, being female and/or Black, low administrator expectations, and lack of cultural and social outlets. (SM)

One woman faculty member describes several ways in which she helped introduce feminist perspectives into her institution through traditional structures, including development and institutionalization of a women's studies course on gender and communication, service on college and university committees, and serving as a role model for other women.…

In a field dominated almost exclusively by men, successful women administrators in public schools can provide a rich source of information concerning the advantages and disadvantages of being a "female executive." After briefly discussing well-documented internal and external barriers to women's administrative career aspirations, this…

The main body of this pamphlet presents science career exploration activities for women in the form of six modules. Complete modules can be used as presented or activities may be adapted or borrowed to suit individual situations. The modules are titled: (1) Turning A Girl Onto Science Careers; (2) What Do I Want Out of Life?; (3) How Do Parents…

Applies Erving Goffman's stigma theory to impressions of 25 women in educational administration careers. Analyzes data from an earlier study to show how women administrators, confronted with male leadership norms, deviate, acquire stigma, and become marginal. Concludes with suggestions for change, citing 32 references. (MLH)

This checklist on women's issues to evaluate educational programs asks questions about access to education, bias-free curricula, nontraditional programs, employment training, child care, financial arrangements and fee policies, and fair and nondiscriminatory staff. (SK)

Guidelines are presented to help institutions ensure women's full participation in campus-based and sponsored merit awards and prizes programs. Over 100 recommendations are designed to: explain why such awards and prizes can be particularly important for women students and women faculty; identify overt and inadvertent barriers to women's full…