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- Title
Gender inequalities in academic rank.
- Authors
Goyder, John
- Abstract
As a setting for studying work world inequalities between men and women, academe is important. It is from the universities that much of the intellectual foundation for commitment to equality of economic opportunity between the sexes comes. Universities should therefore be exemplary in providing equal career opportunities for all. Social scientists have not been unaware of the need to assess their own labor market and workplace. The early works by American sociologists, however, paid passing attention at best to the position of women, being preoccupied instead with such issues as personal networks in recruiting, or the prestige of the institution of a person's training. Male-female inequality in academic rank, the focus of the present article, has been less carefully addressed in both Canada and the U.S. South of the border, institutional prestige, which has such high variance in the American higher educational system could deflect attention away from rank within institutions. Pay is the more meaningful variable in the U.S., because the institutional prestige of the place where an academic is located is reflected by the ability of prestigious universities to pay the highest salaries.
- Subjects
CANADA; UNITED States; SEX discrimination in employment; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; WAGES; WORK environment; GENDER inequality; SOCIAL scientists
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1992, Vol 17, Issue 3, p333
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3341328