Despite tremendous progress towards gender equality and equity in institutions of higher education, deep patterns of discrimination of and hostility towards women in the academy persist. This book is intended as a "tool kit” for creating greater equality and equity in higher education. It presents the latest research on issues of concern to women academics and anyone interested in a more equitable academy.

FOREWORD Penny A. Pasque ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION From People to Policies. Enduring Inequalities and Inequities for Women Academics Kristine De Welde and Andi StepnickPART ONE. THE STRUCTURE 1. GLASS CEILINGS AND GATED COMMUNITIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION Robert J. Hironimus-Wendt and Doreen A. Dedjoe 2. CHALLENGES OF RACE AND GENDER FOR BLACK WOMEN IN THE ACADEMY Candice P. Baldwin and Monica D. Griffin 3. CONTINGENT APPOINTMENTS AND THE DIMINISHING VOICE, AGENCY, AND PROFESSIONALISM OF WOMEN Cecile H. Sam and Adrianna Kezar 4. FACULTY GENDER INEQUITY AND THE "JUST SAY NO TO SERVICE" FAIRY TALE Karen Pyke CASE STUDY. LECTURER BARNES. LONG-TERM CONTINGENT FACULTY PART TWO. STRUCTURE MEETS CULTURE 5. THE INFLUENCE OF DEPARTMENTAL CULTURE ON ACADEMIC PARENTS' PRO-WORK BEHAVIORS Julie A. Kmec, Shanyuan Foo, and Amy S. Wharton 6. ASSIMILATING TO THE NORM Academic Women's Experiences With Work-Family Policies Catherine Richards Solomon 7. THE ELDERCARE CRISIS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR WOMEN FACULTY Gretal Leibnitz and Briana Morrison CASE STUDY. GRADUATE STUDENT CHASTAIN. NAVIGATING GENDERED FAMILY-WORK EXPECTATIONS PART THREE. EXCLUSIONARY CULTURES 8. PERPETUATING INEQUALITY THROUGH THE CANONS OF DISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE Barret Katuna 9. CHARACTERISTICS AND PERCEPTIONS OF WOMEN OF COLOR FACULTY NATIONALLY Corinne Castro 10. WOMEN SOCIOLOGISTS AND THE QUESTION OF INCLUSION IN THE ACADEMY Kristin Marsh 11. NOT THE IDEAL PROFESSOR. Gender in the Academy Laura Hirshfield 12. INTERSECTIONAL INVISIBILITY AND THE ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCES OF LESBIAN FACULTY Diana Bilimoria and Abigail J. Stewart CASE STUDY. PROFESSOR LIU. THE MULTIPLE CHALLENGES FOR AN ASIAN WOMAN PROFESSOR IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCE FIELD PART FOUR. HOSTILE CLIMATES 13. GENDER DIFFERENCES IN FACULTY RESPONSES TO CONTRAPOWER HARASSMENT Claudia Lampman 14. CONFRONTING FACULTY INCIVILITY AND MOBBING Susan K. Gardner and Amy Blackstone 15. WOMEN OF COLOR IN THE ACADEMY From Trauma to Transformation Molly Everett Davis, Halaevalu F. Ofahengaue Vakalahi, and Renay Scales CASE STUDY. PROFESSOR SMITH. EARLY-CAREER MOBBING AND STUDENT HOSTILITIES PART FIVE. TOOLS FOR CHANGING THE ACADEMY 16. MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES FOR CREATING CHANGE IN THE ACADEMY Elizabeth J. Allan 17. WITH SO MANY PROBLEMS, WHERE DO WE BEGIN?. Building a Toolbox for Change Abby L. Ferber CASE STUDIES OF RESISTANCE AND FEMINIST CHANGE ONLINE RESOURCES ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

Kristine De Welde is Associate Dean of University-wide Programs and Faculty Engagement in Undergraduate Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University. Her research and teaching interests include gender, women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), sociology of families, sociology of food, and service learning. Andi Stepnick is Professor of Sociology at Belmont University (where she served as chair of the department from 2003-2010). She earned her Ph.D. from Florida State University. She teaches classes in the Sociology of Gender, Family Problems: the Sociology of Health, Illness & the Body; Restorative Justice; Visual Sociology; and Men, Masculinity & Media. She researches gender and social movements, popular culture, and pedagogy. Since 2002, she has organized and facilitated a variety of workshops and seminars on workplace diversity issues. Penny A. Pasque is professor in Educational Studies, director of the QualLab, and director of Qualitative Methods in the Office of Research, Innovation and Collaboration (ORIC), College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University. Pasque is editor of The Review of Higher Education (with Dr. Thomas F. Nelson Laird). RHE is considered one of the leading research journals in the field and is the official journal of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Her research addresses complexities in qualitative inquiry, in/equities in higher education, and dis/connections between higher education and society. She works with qualitative methodologies as well as studies qualitative methodologies that work toward social justice and educational equity. Pasque's research has appeared in over 100 journal articles and books, including in The Journal of Higher Education, Qualitative Inquiry, The Review of Higher Education, Peabody Journal of Education, Diversity in Higher Education, Cultural StudiesCritical Methodologies, among others.Her books include Qualitative Inquiry in Higher Education Organ