The Educational Process and Job Equity for the Sexes in Social Work

Research, publication productivity, and applied social science

“…1963;Reskin, 1977Reskin, , 1978. For these reasons, variation in publication productivity is one of the most central and perplexing problems in the study of science and scholarship (Fox 1983(Fox . 1985b).…”

Sex-Role Stereotypes and the Socialization of Managers

“…Women who do succeed in management are those who either happen to possess an unusual number of masculine-identified qualities or adopt these qualities as a means for survival. In the social work literature, our attention has been called to this issue by such writers as Rubenstein (1981), Faver, Fox, andShannon (1983), and Chernesky (1980), among others. It is their contention that the social work profession, although dominated numerically by women, is by no means im- mune from the discriminatory effects of these stereotypes which have been observed in other fields.…”

Sex roles and power relationships in supervision.

“…The female professional in the psychotherapy organizational world faces a more bewildering situation in that she is part of a profession that (a) is moving toward a female majority but (b) still offers few female role models because men have gravitated to the majority of higher ranking positions. Under these circumstances, the support group concept for women becomes just as important for women in psychotherapy settings as is the case in the business world (Faver, Fox, & Shannon, 1983, p. 83). On the other hand, given the sex typing of occupations in this society (Pogrebin, 1980, p. 535), the new majority status of women could enhance women’s efforts to overcome the traditional sex typing of occupations in their preparation for and movement into middle management and upper level positions of leadership.…”