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

by Mary Helen Conroy and Mary Dee Wenniger

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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787952842
• ISBN13: 9780787952846
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Change starts here!

An elegant, informative, and (often) witty book exploring how far we've come and how far we have yet to go! Highly recommended. If you enjoy this book, check out Stories of the Academy: Learning from the Good Mother by Mary Beth Spore et al. for a similar, equally compelling, look at life for women in Academe.

Blends serious commentary, sage advice, and wry humor

In Gender Equity Or Bust!, editors Mary Dee Wenniger and Mary Helen Conroy have assembled a compendium of informative and thought-provoking contributors to provide the reader with a broad view of the progress women have made toward achieving full and fair career recognition within the institutions of American higher education. Highly recommended for women's studies, as well as history of American education reading lists and reference collections, Gender Equity Or Bust! contributors blend serious commentary, sage advice, and wry humor with their stories and commentaries on how they broke through the academic "glass ceiling" to rise up through campus faculty and administrative ranks.