Are Women Changing the Nature of the Academic Profession

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ID9015347
AuthorsAna María Turner Lomperis (corresponding author)
Year1990
Volume61
Issue6
Pages643-677
Publication date1990-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1546 • E-ISSN: 1538-4640
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00221546.1990.11775115
OpenAlexW2008358505
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited17

Without question, as labor economists Richard Layard and Jacob Mincer have observed, the tremendous rise in the number of women entering and remaining in the labor force over the last twenty years is of the most profound social changes of our time [19]. Nowhere has this trend been more significant than in the traditionally male-dominated professions, such as law, medicine, and university teaching. Consider the fact that less than a quarter of a century ago about one-fifth of all university faculty members, fewer than one-tenth of all physicians, and about one-twentieth of the nation's lawyers were women. Today about one out of three college teachers, almost one out of four lawyers, and one out of five medical doctors are female. Such trends recently provoked economist John B. Parrish [34] to ask: Are women taking over the professions? Professor Parrish proceeds to answer his question by summarizing the impressive gains women have made in professional and graduate school enrollments since the 1960s and especially during the 1970s. Based on his review of this primarily supply-side evidence, he concludes that there is no indica

Higher education · Medical education · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Healthcare Policy and Management · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Law · Medicine · Psychology

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