Breaking into the All-Male Club

217 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h43min.
Women professors of educational administration share their personal stories of being female firsts.Women professors of educational administration share their personal stories of being female firsts.Winner of the 2011 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association These are the inspiring and illuminating stories of women professors who first broke into the exclusive, all-male academic club of educational administration. Women of this pioneering generation tell how they overcame daunting challenges, traumas, the naiveté of others, sexual harassment, and retaliation, as well as how they encountered unexpected kindness and support along the way. Their difficult paths, complex choices, and triumphs are revealed through the experiences of the first black woman professor in educational administration, a fight to the death for tenure, a genteel southerner's confrontation with the aloof North, and a brash northerner's survival of the cultural complexities of the South. These stories speak not simply to women, but to all trailblazers in the workplace, and to those still facing discrimination and relegated to outsider status.Preface 1. Framing the Stories Norma T. Mertz 2. A First Woman with Clout Edith A. Rusch and Barbara L. Jackson 3.Breaking Through Martha McCarthy 4. Nothing Except a Battle Lost Can Be Half So Melancholy as a Battle Won: A Fight for Tenure Carolyn J. Wood 5. Traversing the Fault Line Ellen V. Bueschel about Nelda Cambron-McCabe 6. Where the Boys Were... With Apologies to Connie Francis Norma T. Mertz 7. Goodness of Fit Diana G. Pounder 8. First Ladies in the Academy Deborah A. Verstegen 9. From School Administrator to University Professor Betty Malen 10. The "Accidental" Professor Nona A. Prestine 11. Resistance and Determination: Faculty Experiences of a Women Religious Patricia A. Bauch, O.P. 12. From the Bush to the Ivory Tower Mary Gardiner 13. One Woman’s Struggle to Include and Be Included Carolyn M. Keeler 14. Being First: Stories of Social Complexities Paula Myrick Short 15. My Life as a Trophy Edith A. Rusch 16. Making Meaning of the Stories Norma T. Mertz Unfinished, Uncertain Chronology of Women’s Entry into theAll-Male Educational Administration Professoriate Contributors