Vital Variables and Gender Equity in Academe: Confessions from a Feminist Empiricist Project

Nielsen et al describe how a series of quantitative analyses of salary data led to a search for interpretative context for what is called vital variables and describe efforts to measure feminist consciousness as a theoritically relevant and major indicator of the campus climate using standard survey...

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Published in:Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 2005-09, Vol.31 (1), p.1-28
Main Authors: Nielsen, Joyce McCarl, Marschke, Robyn, Sheff, Elisabeth, Rankin, Patricia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Careers
Academic staff
College Environment
College Faculty
Empiricism
Evaluation Research
Evaluators
Females
Feminism
Feminist literary theory
Feminist theories
Feminist Theory
Gender Differences
Gender Discrimination
Gender equity
Gender inequalities
Graduate Students
Income Inequality
Intellectual Disciplines
Men
Occupational Segregation
Regression (Statistics)
Regression analysis
Remedial Programs
Research Design
Research methods
Salaries
Salary
School campuses
School Policy
Sex Fairness
Sexual Inequality
Social Action
Social change
Sociology
Sociology of education. Educational systems. Lifelong education
Statistical variance
Teaching Methods
Universities
Women Faculty
Women Scientists
Womens studies
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Summary:Nielsen et al describe how a series of quantitative analyses of salary data led to a search for interpretative context for what is called vital variables and describe efforts to measure feminist consciousness as a theoritically relevant and major indicator of the campus climate using standard survey instruments.
ISSN:0097-9740
1545-6943
DOI:10.1086/431371