Women and Gender in Higher Education

"Dr. Ann Wendle provides us with a thorough and succinct text discussing and analyzing a deeper understanding of women and gender in higher education. Notably, this book engages the reader with applied elements designed to stimulate awareness, encourage dialogue, and effect positive social change. As a gay cis man who has worked in higher education for more than 20 years, it’s refreshing to deepen my learning from a text that acknowledges the complexities and barriers facing women today while providing concrete opportunities for those who seek authentic equity and inclusion in higher education."

John L. Garland, PhD, CRC, Director, Research & Student Success, Indigenous Education, Inc.

"Wendle’s book is a valuable resource, outlining the fraught and difficult history of women in higher education, and encouraging readers to think about how that legacy informs the urgent matters of our present moment. So many of us are working every day on issues of representation, diversity, and equity in colleges, universities, and beyond. For us, these topics are not just theoretical but vitally tied to our lived experience. Women and Gender in Higher Education: Looking Forward, Looking Back provides us with the background, theory, and strategies to enable real progress and change."

Heidi Hanrahan, Ph.D., Professor of English, Shepherd University

"Dr. Wendle shares her expert, observational perspective on the issues women in higher education face. This book extensively covers the academic culture from a historical context through academic milestones, and provides a roadmap for promoting gender equity and success for a better tomorrow. The invaluable research on the topic of women in higher education has contributed to a quintessential resource for surviving the world of academia."

Mary J.C. Hendrix, Ph.D., President, Shepherd University

"Wendle’s deep dive into the historical contexts and frameworks, documents, and stories of women who have reshaped higher education operationalizes theory in a way that provides new context and a blueprint to understand, analyze, and advance the cause of gender equity in the academy. A must read."

David J. Thomas, Ph.D., Director, Office of Services for Students with Disabilities, Assistant Professor, Educational Development, University College, West Chester University

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Preface

Part I: Women in Higher Education

Chapter One
History of Women in America and Higher Education

Chapter Two
Promotion and Tenure

Chapter Three
Programming and Resources

Part II: Lived Experiences of Women Past and Present

Chapter Four
The Lived Experience

Chapter Five
Implications of Identity

Chapter Six
Socialization of Bias

Chapter Seven
Around the Table

Chapter Eight
Attributes of Assimilation

Part III: Theoretical Approaches

Chapter Nine
Theoretical Approaches

Chapter Ten
Research and Application

Chapter Eleven
Theory Into Practice

Key Terms

About the Author

Index

Ann Wendle

Ann Wendle (Ph.D. in Higher Education, Old Dominion University) is a graduate faculty program coordinator for College Student Development and Administration at Shepherd University. She has more than 15 years of post-secondary administrative experience and more than ten years of post-secondary teaching experience. Her research interests are focused on equity; gender; marginality; identity; interpersonal violence; alcohol and other drugs; cultural competency; crisis response to mental health; first year student transitions and social conflict skills; student residential experiences; and how identity relates to oppression and exclusion in leadership and community in higher education.