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Advancing gender equity: how campus leaders can help.
Gender equity is an elusive goal. While women and men start at roughly equal salaries, women advance more slowly in rank and pay. They're significantly underrepresented in top faculty ranks, at top universities and among recipients of national awards. More women than men are moved into part-time positions.
Dr. Virginia Valian, distinguished professor of psychology and linguistics at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center and author of Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women (MIT Press 1998), says leaders can help once they understand the cause.
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Common scapegoats either put the burden on women or assume the problem will solve itself.
1. Pipeline. Some say the shortage of senior women will correct itself as more women come up through the pipeline. But the pipeline leaks women faster than it leaks men.
2. Childcare. Parenting falls more heavily on moms than dads. But women without children also advance more slowly than men.
3. Values. Women and men want similar things from their jobs but women care more about life balance. Do universities benefit from restricting leadership to people with unbalanced lives?
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