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Dismantling organizational barriers at Catholic schools.(women professors)
Although women have equal dignity and rights with men according to Catholic social teaching, they face discrimination at work, in social life and in public policy.
Those at Catholic colleges and universities face a variety of institutional barriers and challenges that their sisters at secular institutions do not. The challenges are stronger at Catholic schools founded by male religious than at those created by nuns.
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What are these special challenges and how do they affect the life of women on a Catholic campus? And how are wise women working to get past them?
Dr. Kathleen Watters, a faculty member in the department of communications at the University of Dayton OH and Lisa Rismiller, founding director of the school's Women's Center, examined many schools' reports on women's issues to identify the challenges. They presented their research at the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education (NAWCHE) held at Providence College RI in June.
What are barriers?
They defined institutional barriers as "tacit beliefs, assumptions and behaviors" that harm women. "Such barriers foster campus climates that undermine respect for women, limit their presence and participation and impede positive steps taken to achieve progress toward gender equity and the full and active participation of women on campus," they noted.
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