Breaking into the all-male club : female professors of educational administration / edited by Norma T. Mertz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mertz, Norma T.

Series:

SUNY series in women in education

Suny series, women in education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex discrimination in higher education--United States.

Sex discrimination in higher education.

United States.

Women college administrators--United States.

Women college administrators.

Women college teachers--United States.

Women college teachers.

Universities and colleges--United States--Administration.

Universities and colleges.

Administration.

Physical Description:

x, 203 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, [2009]

Summary:

These are the inspiring and illuminating stories of women professors who first broke into the exclusive, all-male academic club of educational administration. Women of this pioneering generation tell how they overcame daunting challenges, traumas, the naivete of others, sexual harassment, and retaliation, as well as how they encountered unexpected kindness and support along the way. Their difficult paths, complex choices, and triumphs are revealed through the experiences of the first black woman professor in educational administration, a fight to the death for tenure, a genteel southerner's confrontation with the aloof North, and a brash northerner's survival of the cultural complexities of the South. These stories speak not simply to women, but to all trailblazers in the workplace, and to those still facing discrimination and relegated to outsider status.

A volume in the SUNY series in Women in Education Margaret Grogan, editor

Contents:

Framing the stories / Norma T. Mertz

A first woman with clout / Edith A. Rusch and Barbara L. Jackson

Breaking through / Martha McCarthy

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won : a fight for tenure / Carolyn J. Wood

Traversing the fault line / Ellen V. Bueschel about Nelda Cambron-McCabe

Where the boys were

with apologies to Connie Francis / Norma T. Mertz

Goodness of fit / Diana G. Pounder

First ladies in the academy / Deborah A. Verstegen

From school administrator to university professor / Betty Malen

The "accidental" professor / Nona A. Prestine

Resistance and determination : faculty experiences of a women religious / Patricia A. Bauch

From the bush to the ivory tower / Mary Gardiner

One woman's struggle to include and be included / Carolyn M. Keeler

Being first : stories of social complexities / Paula Myrick Short

My life as a trophy / Edith A. Rusch

Making meaning of the stories / Norma T. Mertz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781438424958

1438424957

9781438424965

1438424965

OCLC:

244293181