Word: academia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really validates the things women do that are outside the mainstream of academia, and I don't think there are many places that do that," Wolfson says...
...universities and funding agencies started to offer continuing education programs for women. As a result, administrators say, the Bunting Institute began to reach out specifically to women who had achieved distinction in their careers. Over time, the institute gradually became a center devoted largely to helping women advance in academia or the arts...
...academia, it's easy to think that the job's been done," says Elizabeth R. McKinsey, the former director of the institute who left last July to become dean of Carleton College. "There certainly are more women, particularly if you look at assistant professor ranks. It looks heartening, but that's misleading. If you look at associate professor and professor ranks, it's still quite sobering...
SONG members are also rather naive to think that a cultural elevation of the intellectual is the cure-all for economic stagnation. In the Soviet Union, a university professorship is among the most revered occupations, and Soviet schoolchildren often aspire to a life of academia...