Breaking into the All-Male Club

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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.
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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

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• Tertiary education

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• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 05 mars 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438425139
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Edith A. Rusch,Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is author of the re- cently published “Gender and Race in Leadership Preparation” and coauthor of “Gender Filters and Leadership.” Her research interests include equity discourse and leadership preparation, democratic praxis, organizational learning, and theories of organizational change.

Paula Myrick Short,Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Tennessee Board of Regents, and Professor, Tennessee State University, Nashville. She has published over 140 scholarly articles, 9 books, book chapters, and technical reports. Her most recent book isAcademic Quality Work, which she coauthored. Her research interests include leadership, empowerment in organizations, continuous academic quality work in higher education, organizational change, and governance in higher education.

Deborah A. Verstegen,Professor, Department of Educational Leader- ship, University of Nevada, Reno, and Erwin J. O’Leary Chair in Finance Management, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has written over 250 books, articles, chapters, and manuscripts on education finance and policy with a focus on equity, adequacy, and equal opportunity.

Carolyn J. Wood,Professor, Educational Leadership and Organizational Learning, University of New Mexico. She is the coauthor of the book How to Turn Schools Around: What Principals Can Do, and has authored or coauthored numerous articles and book chapters. Her research interests focus on teacher evaluation, instructional supervision, leaned and taught helplessness, participatory decision making, and the integration of tech- nology into higher education and K–12 teaching practices.

Breaking into the All-Male Club

SUNY series, Women in Education

Margaret Grogan, editor

Breaking into the All-Male Club Female Professors of Educational Administration

Edited by Norma T. Mertz

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Breaking into the all-male club : female professors of educational administration / edited by Norma T. Mertz. p. cm. — (Suny series in women and education) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4384-2495-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4384-2496-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Sex discrimination in higher education—United States. 2. Women college administrators—United States. 3. Women college teachers—United States. 4. Universities and colleges—United States—Administration. I. Mertz, Norma T. LC212.862.B74 2009 379.2'6—dc22 2008035108

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Framing the Stories Norma T. Mertz

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A First Woman with Clout Edith A. Rusch and Barbara L. Jackson

Breaking Through Martha McCarthy

Nothing Except a Battle Lost Can Be Half So Melancholy as a Battle Won: A Fight for Tenure Carolyn J. Wood

Traversing the Fault Line Ellen V. Bueschel about Nelda Cambron-McCabe

Where the Boys Were . . . With Apologies to Connie Francis Norma T. Mertz

Goodness of Fit Diana G. Pounder

First Ladies in the Academy Deborah A. Verstegen

From School Administrator to University Professor Betty Malen

The “Accidental” Professor Nona A. Prestine

Resistance and Determination: of a Women Religious Patricia A. Bauch, O.P.

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From the Bush to the Ivory Tower Mary Gardiner

One Woman’s Struggle to Include and Be Included Carolyn M. Keeler

Being First: Stories of Social Complexities Paula Myrick Short

My Life as a Trophy Edith A. Rusch

Making Meaning of the Stories Norma T. Mertz

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Breaking into the All-Male Clubis about and by women who successfully broke into the formerly all-male club of professors of educational ad- ministration. Firsts, pioneers, groundbreakers, they overcame normative, and in some cases overt, obstacles to their entrance and advancement and won a place for themselves and other women in departments of ed- ucational administration in the academy. How they came to be firsts, what they faced as groundbreakers, and what happened to them in the doing is what this book is about; firsts telling their stories in their own voices, from their singular perspectives. This book grew out of the work of the University Council for Educa- tional Administration Task Force on Gender. In sessions at annual meet- ings, interested participants shared experiences, identified issues of concern related to gender and leadership, and considered ways to sup- port equity and social justice in educational administration. As women professors talked about their experiences and needs, it became evident that the voices of women who were pioneers in the field were missing, in spite of the fact that many of the women who had broken into the club were present and active in the discussions. There was a great deal of in- terest in having these women share their experiences, in helping women who were still facing barriers to their acceptance understand what was happening to them and how to deal with it, and in learning about a part of the history of the field that largely had been ignored. This volume grew from these persistent voices and from the realization that the first generation of women professors of educational administration would not be around forever. If we were to preserve their stories in their own voices, we needed to get on with it before they were lost or beyond first-person retrieval. The names of female firsts were solicited widely from faculty and de- partments of educational administration across the country. Each first-generation female identified was contacted, told about the nature and purpose of the book, and asked to contribute her story. In addition, each was asked to identify other firsts. Some firsts had to be tracked down

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