Gender and University Teaching

Anne Statham is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, and co-editor of The Worth of Women's Work: A Qualitative Synthesis also published by SUNY Press. Laurel Richardson is Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University. Judith A. Cook is Director of the Thresholds Research Institute.

"The topic is very significant in an era when higher education is under attack for not educating students properly. Rather than examining curriculum, as Bennett, Bloom, and the other conservatives have done, this book studies the behaviors and sentiments of the producers themselves — the college faculty." — Catherine White Berheide, Skidmore College

• Tables and Figures Acknowledgments1. Theoretical Approaches to Understanding College Teaching2. The Study3. Basic Instructional Activities in Academia4. Authority Management in the Classroom5. Personalizations: Look Into My Life6. Students' Reactions: Evaluating Men and Women Faculty7. Conclusions and Implications for Teachers and AdministratorsAppendices A. The Hough-Duncan Observation TechniqueB. Observer Effects Estimated with ANOVAC. The Construction of Student Evaluation Scales: Competence and LikabilityD. Student Questionnaire and Interview GuideNotes ReferencesIndexes