| Academic Discrimination Resources for Faculty and Staff Contemplating Sex Discrimination The following is reseach compiled relating to academic
discrimination:
Resources
for women faculty contemplating sex discrimination litigation
http://www.aauw.org/
AAUW's Legal Defense Fund has contributed substantial funds for 59 lawsuits.
They also maintain a list of recommended attorneys
http://www.aaup.org/
AAUP collects and disseminates information on the status of women in
academe, supports litigation, and has a list of attorneys
http://www.nowldef.org/
The NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund occasionally supports litigation—more
often by submitting amicus briefs at the appellate level—in cases
with precedent-setting potential. It does not provide funding and is
not limited to cases in academe. It does publish a list of state-by-state
resource lists of organizations that may be able to help women involved
in fighting sex discrimination
NWSA (National Women's Studies Association) Academic Discrimination Advisory
Board has a Legal Fund, a letter writing network, and a plaintiff support
network to support women bringing sex discrimination suits against institutions
of higher education. Contact Annis Pratt, 1056 Larchlea Drive, Birmingham,
Michigan 48009 (248) 644-0737.
WAGE - We Advocate Gender Equality provides information and support to
women faculty and staff in the University of California system. It does
not provide funding but may her able to help find an attorney. It has
a wide network of former and current plaintiffs. Contact Charity Hersch,
841 Coventry Road, Kensington, CA 94707, phone: 510 526 8953.
Sometimes the legal funds will set up a fund within for a specific case
so that people can contribute to a specific case and have it be tax deductible
if the money goes through a non-profit group.
There was a case involving the math professor at UC Berkeley back in
1994. Women faculty set up a committee, organized activities and raised
money, and put out a newsletter. The last issue described how the support
committee was organized, what it did and how it raised money. I don't
know if these contacts are still good but you can try: Charity Hirsch
at 510 526 8953 or Patricia St. Lawrence at 510 254 8192. Jenny Harrison,
who was the math professor and eventually got tenure may still be at the
math department at Berkeley.
http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/howtofil.html
Bare bones description of procedure for Equal Employment Opportunities
Commission:
http://www.dol.gov/dol/wb/public/rnedia/reports/main.htm
Department of Labor's Women's Bureau-clearinghouse provides general pamphlets
on these issues:
- Don't Work in the Dark-Disability Discrimination
- Don't Work in the Dark-Pregnancy Discrimination
- Don't Work in the Dark-Sexual Harassment
- Don't Work in the Dark-Family and Medical Leave Act
- Don't Work in the Dark-Age Discrimination
- Don't Work in the Dark-Wage Discrimination
http://www.acenet.edu/About/programs/Access&Equity/OWHE/home.html
For women with higher administrative aspirations, American Council of
Education Office of Women in Higher Education
http://www.abanet.org
The American Bar Association has information on what questions to ask
your lawyer.
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Bibliography
- Aisenberg, Nadya, Mona Harrington. 1988. Women
of Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove. University of Massachusetts
Press.
- Argues women see academic life as a calling and often fail to think
sufficiently instrumentally to ensure short-term success.
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- Anonymous.
1999. "Tenure in a Chilly Climate." P/S: Political Science
and Politics, (March): 91-99.
- A personal account of two political scientists with lots of examples.
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- Brodribb, S. 1996. "The Equity Franchise." Women's Education
des Femmes, 12(1), 12-20.
- A short newsletter account of what ensued when Canadian women political
scientists complained about a chilly climate.
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- Caplan, P. J. 1994. Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide
to Surviving in the Academic World. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press.
- A helpful "how-to" book for women in the academy that includes
a political analysis of the catch-22 situations women face and the difficulties
in succeeding caused by structure and climate rather than women's own
shortcomings.
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- Chamallas, Martha. 1994. "Jean Jew’s Case: Resisting Sexual
Harassment in the Academy," Yale Journal of Law and Feminism,
(6):71-90.
- A comprehensive and thoughtful essay of a case of sexual harassment
by an anatomy professor against the University of Iowa by a participant
and employment discrimination law professor.
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- The Chilly Climate Collective, (Eds.). 1995. Breaking Anonymity:
The Chilly Climate for Women Faculty. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred
Laurier Press.
- A series of powerful essays by Canadian academics across the disciplines.
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- Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession. 1992. "Improving
the Status of Women in Political Science: A Final Report with Recommendations."
P/S: Political Science and Politics, 25(3), 547-554.
- A gentle effort aimed at practical improvements.
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- Dalton, C. 1988. "The Political is Personal in Tenure Decisions."
Harvard Law Record, 86(8), 7-8.
- A brief account of her own experience at Harvard law School.
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- Hopkins. N. 1999. "MIT and Gender Bias." Chronicle of
Higher Education, 45(40)(June 11): B4-5.
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- Kenney,
S. J. 1996. "Resources for Women Faculty," WCPS Quarterly:
Newsletter of the Women's Caucus for Political Science, 13(5): 7-8.
- A review
of helpful books and articles.
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- Kolodny, A. 1993. "Raising Standards While Lowering Anxieties:
Rethinking the Promotion and Tenure Process." Concerns,
23(Spring), 16-40.
- Thoughtful and comprehensive synopsis of issues by longtime feminist
academic and Dean at the University of Arizona.
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- Krieger, L.H. 1995. "The Content of Our Categories: A Cognitive
Bias Approach to Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunity,"
Stanford Law Review, 47:1161-1248.
- Pathbreaking legal analysis drawing on social cognition theory to
understand discrimination as cognitive as well as affective and as unconscious
rather than exclusively intentional. Explains much about personal dynamics
within institutions facing litigation as well as illuminates failure
of sex discrimination doctrine.
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- LaNoue, George and Barbara Lee. 1987. Academics in Court: The Consequences
of Faculty Discrimination Litigation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press.
- Five case studies of lawsuits explores effects on litigants as well
as institutions.
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- Leap, T. 1993. Tenure, Discrimination, and the Courts. lthaca:
Cornell University Press.
- A depoliticized description of current law from an industrial relations
professor. Meant to be a handbook/reference book for administrators.
Weak on both analysis of legal doctrine and feminist analysis.
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- Lucas, L. A. 1990. "Confronting the Wizard of Oz or an Introduction
to Administrative/Legal Process." Presented at the Mary Ingraham
Bunting Institute Colloquium Series, Boston.
- Personal advice from someone who's been there.
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- Lucas, L. 1990. "77 Things You Can Say or Do For Your Woman Friend
Who Has Been Denied Tenure." Ditto. Presented at the Mary Ingraham
Bunting Institute Colloquium Series, Boston.Mathews, A. 1992. "Rage in a Tenured Position," The New
York Times. November 8, 1992, Sunday, Section 6; Page 47.
- Account of Carolyn Heilbrun's experience in the English Department
at Columbia University and her ultimate resignation. Title is drawn
from a mystery novel Heilbrun wrote under the alias Amanda Cross entitled
Death in a Tenured Position. A great read.
- McIntyre, S. 1995. "Gender Bias within the Law School: The Memo'
and Its Impact," in Breaking Anonymity: The Chilly Climate for
Women Faculty. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
- A chilling account of what ensued when a well-intentioned woman law
professor tried to address climate issues in her faculty.
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- Monture-Okanee, P. A. 1995. "Introduction-Surviving the Contradictions:
Personal Notes on Academia." In T. C. Collective (Ed.), Breaking
Anonymity: the Chilly Climate for Women Faculty (pp. 11-29). Waterloo,
Ontario: Wilfred Laurier Press.
- A powerful essay that addresses, among other things, why it is important
not to remain silent about our own experiences.
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- Rimer, S. 1997. "Tenure Denial to a Woman Puts Harvard in an
Uproar," The New York Times, May 19.
- Brief account of tenure denial to Bonnie Hoenig, a political theorist.
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- Ruddick, S., & Daniels, P. (Eds.). 1977. Working it Out: 23
Women Writers, Artists Scientists, and Scholars Talk about Their Lives
and Work . New York: Pantheon.
- Essays that address what it is like to recover from writers block
in particular. Addresses the role of discrimination and exclusion and
how it affects women's work and well being.
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- Sandler, Bernice R. 1986. The Campus Climate Revisited: Chilly
for Women Faculty, Administrators' and Graduate Students. Washington,
D.C.: Project on the Status and Education of Women, Association of American
Colleges.
- A comprehensive overview rich with specifics, analysis, and practical
advice.
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- Sarkees, M.R. and N. McGlen. 1992. "Confronting Barriers: The
Status of Women in Political Science," Women and Politics,
12(4): 43-86.
- Statistics and analysis from one discipline. Destroys the pool argument
for women's lack of greater representation at higher levels.
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- Schultz, V. 1998. "Reconceptualizing Sexual Harassment, " Yale Law Journal, 107:1683-1805.
- Talks about important concepts of devaluation and disaggregation
in sexual harassment case law that have powerful illuminative implications
for discrimination law more generally.
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- Theodore, Athena. 1986. The Campus Troublemakers: Academic Women
in Protest. Houston: Cap and Gown Press.
- Analyzes what happens when women challenge sex discrimination by a
sociologist and victim/survivor.
- Tierney, W. and Estela Mara Bensimon. 1996. Promotion and Tenure:
Community and Socialization in Academe. Albany, NY; State University
of New York Press.
- Tompkins, J. 1992. "The Way We Live Now." Change,
(November/December), 13-19.
- Wistful analysis of the lack of meaningful social and intellectual
community within the academy.
- Toth, E. 1997. Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- A humorous advice-column approach to the myriad problems women academics
face from ice dropped down the blouse at Christmas parties to grade
challenges.
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- Weitzman, L. J. 1975. "Legal Requirements, Structures, and Strategies
for Eliminating Sex Discrimination in Academe." In Wasserman, Lewis,
& Bleiweis (Ed.), Women in Academia: Evolving Policies Toward
Equal Opportunities. Praeger.
- Strategies for organizing on campus to improve women's position by
a sociologist.
- West, Martha S. 1994. "Gender Bias in Academic Robes: The Law's
Failure to Protect Women Faculty." Temple Law Review.
- Painstakingly documents how changes in the law (through amendment
and judicial interpretation) have made it virtually impossible for a
woman to win an academic discrimination case against a university through
careful analysis of case law.
- Whicker, M.L., Kronenfeld, J. J., & Strickland, R. A. 1993. Getting
Tenure. Sage.
- A training manual approach that is very helpful at giving "how
to" concrete advice about each stage in the process. A must read.
- Wing, A.K. 1997. Critical Race Feminism: A Reader. New York:
New York University Press.
- This collection includes a section of moving personal accounts of
women academics of color and their experiences of discrimination.
This is not a comprehensive bibliography. Many of the references themselves
contain more complete bibliographies, such as Caplan, Sandler, Toth, or
West.
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