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.

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.

Sex discrimination in higher education--Administration--United States.

Universities and colleges--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 203 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Women professors of educational administration share their personal stories of being female firsts. 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 naiveté 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. The true potential of this book lies in the solutions that follow each of the women s stories and dilemmas. Teachers College Record Norma T. Mertz is Professor of Higher Education Administration at the University of Tennessee and coeditor (with Vincent A. Anfara Jr.) of Theoretical Frameworks in Qualitative Research.

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-4416-0781-1