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The Price of Success: Senior Academic Women\u27s Stress and Life Choices
Get PDFThe fact that stress has a detrimental effect on health and well-being is well-documented, although the complex relationships are far from delineated. One major controversy involves whether women\u27s traditional roles or the higher status professional and leadership positions, held predominantly by men, are more stressful for women. Although some argue that women will suffer more stress-related disorders as they move into high pressure jobs or as they combine work and family roles, the preponderance of data show that women are least healthy when they hold traditional family roles alone (see Barnett & Hyde, 2001). Even so, the same work environment can be more detrimental for women than for men if the expectations of that environment are structured more appropriately for men than for women (see Gerdes, 1995). Higher education is just such a traditionally male environment; and it is an important environment to examine because of the increasing presence of women as faculty and administrators, and because higher education itself is more than a venue for women\u27s leadership and success. Institutions of higher learning prepare the men and women who become leaders across our society, and higher education arguably represents a society\u27s highest potential for "preserving, transmitting and enlarging on what is best in the culture" (Farley, 1990, p. 194
A Pedagogy of Awareness: Death Education as an Introduction to Social Consciousness
Get PDFI have been teaching a senior level college course entitled Death and Dying - off and on - for more than ten years. At my university it is a philosophy course, though it is multi-disciplinary and could be taught in other departments as well; it is taught around the country in departments of sociology, psychology, health sciences, and religion. I began teaching this course as a result of a tragic loss in my own life. I wanted to bring to others what I had learned as a consequence of that experience and my own exploration through the territory of grief and loss. It seemed to me at the time that most of us are unprepared to deal with some of the blows that life may deal us - especially in contemporary America - and some basic foundational knowledge in this area could enable people to function better in times of crisis than they might without this information
Finding My Voice: An African-American Female Professor at a Predominantly White University
Get PDFDrawing from her personal experience, the author shares concrete examples from her promotion and tenure review, including the experience of social integration issues and the ramifications that the higher education environment had on her personal and professional attitudes as an African-American female faculty member. Included in the discussion is her feeling isolated, devalued, and unwelcomed. She discusses how her value systems, culture, ethnicity, and behavior patterns often conflict with those held by the university and white faculty members and students, and finally, how these conditions disempowered and suppressed her voice as a female faculty and faculty member of color
Factors Influencing Career Choice for Women in Science, Mathematics, and Technology: The Importance of a Transforming Experience
Get PDFOrganizations in the business sector, as well as government and academia, continue to demand intelligent professionals trained in science, mathematics, and technology. This paper explores factors that may influence women\u27s initial choices to pursue careers in these fields. In addition to the many well-established factors that guide an individual\u27s career choice, we propose that women who choose careers in science and technology have a subset of common early experiences that encourage them to pursue a career path still regarded as contrary to traditional gender roles for women. For many women, this common background is a transforming experience that supports their career choice in science, mathematics, and technology. This transforming experience is composed of personal contact with a role model and often an intimate involvement with the process that serves as an invitation into the world of scientific inquiry. The researchers outline a model for women\u27s career selection in these nontraditional fields, and our results suggest some recommendations for increasing the numbers of women in these careers
Transformational Learning in Women\u27s Leadership Development Training
Get PDFRecent years have seen a sharp increase in interest in women\u27s leadership development. However, the nature of change for women in leadership development training and the processes within the training setting that produce change remain under-explored. This paper examines the learning processes within training settings in the context of the Women\u27s Leadership Series (WLS), a leadership development initiative for scientists and managers within the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). It documents this process within a multi-stage framework and concludes that transformational learning can indeed take place in the context of a classroom and in the specific setting of leadership development training
Promoting Equity for Girls in Guatemala\u27s Public Primary Education System
Get PDFEducation for girls in developing countries is not an easy problem to tackle, since it takes money, time, and organization, not to mention support from the government and the immediate community.
The Juxtaposition of Career and Family: A Dilemma for Professional Women
Get PDFMany subtle restrictions exist that prevent women from acquiring promotions, tenure, and other forms of advancement.
Exploring the Dilemmas of Leadership: Voices from the Field
Get PDFAlthough women comprise a majority of the nation\u27s public school teaching force, most school administrators are white males, and at the highest level in public school administration, the superintendency, there seems to be a great deal of resistance to gender and minority integration.
At Eighty-Two: May Sarton
Get PDFAbove all else, the substantive presence of poignancy created by her awareness of the failure to receive acceptance by her peers and the critics permeates the entire journal.
Capacity Building: A Phenomenological Study of the African Women Perceptions and Experiences in the Leadership Training Program
Get PDFThe promotion of leadership skills among women leaders in developing nations is essential in order for change and progress to occur in these countries. In this phenomenological study, we examined the perceptions and experiences of nine women religious of Africa who were engaged in a three-year leadership development initiative in three developing nations: Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana. We described how, by subsequently practicing acquired leadership skills, these women brought about change in their educational, health care, social and pastoral ministries. Data were collected using in-depth interviews, observation of the changes in the participants\u27 ministries, and field notes. The findings indicated that leadership development training enhanced participants\u27 capacity for effective service delivery and allowed for the expansion of their ministries, thus improving life for their people. Participants engaged their communities constructively and positively transformed their project