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1992 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Women in Higher Education: Recent Changes in the United States
Author : Mariam K. Chamberlain
Published in: Women’s Work in the World Economy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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During the last 15 years significant, and in some cases dramatic, changes have taken place in the status of women in higher education in the United States. Under the pressure of the women’s movement the issue of equal opportunity was brought under growing scrutiny by academic women and civil rights groups during the 1970s. Widespread practices of sex discrimination, both overt and subtle, moved on to the research agenda of scholars and became subjects for legal redress.