Lifting a Ton of Feathers

A Woman's Guide for Surviving in the Academic World

Author: Paula J. Caplan
ISBN: 9780802074119

Lifting a Ton of Feathers is not only a survival guide, it is also a destroyer of academic myths about women's career chances in the university, and a revelation of the catch-22 positions in which women find themselves. Caplan demonstrates that while many women believe that when they fail it is their fault, their fate is more likely to be sealed by their encounter with the male environment, and by the manner in which they are tossed about by it. She aims to help women avoid self-blame and understand the real sources of their problems. Readers will find the information about the mine-field of academia for women infuriating, but the means of telling it highly entertaining. Women account for more than half of all undergraduate students in the US and Canada, yet they make up only 10 per cent of faculty members at the level of full professor. What happens to women between freshman level, the tenure track, and the ensuing following professional years that keeps them out of the highest levels

Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publish Date: 1993

Subjects: Education / Higher, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Women in Academia)