Not exact matches
Survey respondents pointed to the hardships of pumping breast milk during on - campus interviews and the altogether strange excuse of everyday hassles, including limited
faculty parking, which makes it difficult for a
woman to find a parking space if she leaves during the day to take a child to a doctor's appointment.
Findings from a study by Stanford University's Clayman Institute for Gender Research in Palo Alto, California, which
surveyed 1222 partnered tenured and tenure - track
faculty respondents (910 men and 312
women), indicates why the division of domestic labor matters — especially for
women.
Two recent
surveys at major research institutions point to the bind
women faculty members face.
And Dommond isn't alone: a
faculty survey carried out by the Higher Education Research Institute found that 42 per cent of minority
women in scientific disciplines reported subtle discrimination — far more than their white or male counterparts did.
Women in the
survey also feel slightly less satisfied with the breadth of the curriculum, career guidance, and
faculty mentoring.
A 1975
survey of
faculty salaries in higher education by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) showed that
women made 10 % less than men, which wasn't bad, considering that the wage gap for all professions then was 41 %.
Both the 1999 STScI
survey and a 1999 AAS demographic
survey (discussed in AAS CSWA, 2000) show that for astronomy
faculty in U.S. institutions,
women constitute 18 percent of the assistant professors, 13 percent of the associate professors, and only 6 percent of the full professors.
Never mind that recent
surveys of university
faculty have shown that an overwhelming percentage are liberal Democrats and that
women's, black, and minority studies programs continue to proliferate on campuses.