Lifting a Ton of Feathers : : A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World / / Paula J. Caplan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Caplan, Paula J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Prologue
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Lifting a Ton of Feathers
• 1. The Good, the Bad, and the Perplexing 3
• 2. Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?, or The Maleness of the Environment
• 3. Unwritten Rules and Impossible Proofs
• 4. The Myths
• 5. Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't
• 6. What You Can Do: Some General Principles
• 7. What You Can Do: Suggestions for Specific Situations
• 8. Check-list for Woman-positive Institutions
• Appendix 1: The Data on Gender Bias in Academia
• Appendix 2: The Maleness of the Environment
• Appendix 3: Suggested Guidelines for Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure Committees
• Notes
• Bibliography