When Women Ask the Questions: Creating Women's Studies in America

Boxer, Marilyn J.

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“…Instead, structures specific to gender and feminist knowledge seem to matter more. The establishment of women's studies was a critical and hard-fought innovation in higher education that signified the valorizing of women's knowledge, research methods, and topics of study (Boxer, 2001). Since being offered in the late 1960s by only a handful of HEIs, most HEIs in the U.S. now offer at least a women's studies course, if not an undergraduate major or minor.…”

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“…Prior empirical work has found that women continue to face epistemic exclusion and scholarly devaluation in the academy, with consequences for promotion and tenure decisions (Settles et al, 2022). Women and gender studies programs legitimize and preserve feminist knowledge (Boxer, 2001). When institutionalized as departments, they provide new faculty lines through which more women may enter the institution (Scully, 1996).…”

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A milestone in the pursuit of gender equality: Predicting first women presidents in U.S. higher education institutions, 1980–2018

D’Apice,

Song,

Wotipka

2024

Sociology Compass

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While women’s higher education enrollments and graduation rates have outpaced those of men in the United States and most countries around the world, women are less frequently included in academic leadership roles, including the higher education presidency. This paper asks what predicts whether and when a higher education institution has its first woman president, conceptualizing this event as a milestone of gender equality. We use a national probability sample of 234 four‐year U.S. universities and colleges, constructing a novel longitudinal dataset from 1980 to 2018. Employing event history analysis, we examine the potential mechanisms associated with when an institution has its first woman president over time. Our findings suggest that the demographic diversity of faculty and students, gender‐ and diversity‐supportive structures, and the broader environment in which institutions are embedded predict the likelihood that a woman will advance to the level of the presidency. In particular, the presence of gender studies programs and a higher proportion of women in state legislatures increase the likelihood that an institution will have its first woman president. At a time of growing challenges facing U.S. higher education, coupled with greater opportunities from having more diverse students and faculty, universities and colleges increasingly recognize the benefit of women leaders.

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A milestone in the pursuit of gender equality: Predicting first women presidents in U.S. higher education institutions, 1980–2018

D’Apice,

Song,

Wotipka

2024

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“…11 7 In the US endeavors to introduce women's studies into universities began in the 1960s while the German women's movement made its way into academia somewhat later in the 1980s (Boxer 1998: 161;Hark 2005). For in-depth discussion of the German history of academic feminism see Hark (2005), for the US see Boxer (1998). 8…”

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Ableism in academic knowledge production

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2021

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The article takes up feminist disability scholars’ request for an integration of disability (theory) into women’s and gender studies and intends to take stock of the status and development of this integration. By means of qualitative content analysis, excerpts of German and US handbooks of gender research are examined for their degree of integrating disability (theory) and for inherent ableism. Considering the scholars’ requests of full integration and a subsequent transformation of gender research the sample shows only minor signs of change and the request must be upheld.

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Motherhood as a Narrative of Moral Resistance

Linn

2002

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When Women Ask the Questions: Creating Women's Studies in America

Abstract: History of Education Quarterly need of 'normal' families, and even a potential responsibility of the state" (p. 5), we learn why that responsibility is still more potential than real.

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A milestone in the pursuit of gender equality: Predicting first women presidents in U.S. higher education institutions, 1980–2018

A milestone in the pursuit of gender equality: Predicting first women presidents in U.S. higher education institutions, 1980–2018

Ableism in academic knowledge production

Motherhood as a Narrative of Moral Resistance

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