Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2022
1 Unless otherwise noted, this section of the report is adapted from Schuck, Victoria, “Women in Political Science: Some Preliminary Observations,” in PS: Political Science & Politics, Fall 1969, vol. II, pp. 642–653.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2 In 1963, women constituted 12.5 percent of the American Sociological Association. See Davis, Ann E., “Women as a Minority Group in Higher Academics,” The American Sociologist, May 1969, vol. 4, p. 98.Google Scholar There is a growing literature on women in the professions. For recent articles pertinent to the subject of women in teaching and research in institutions of higher learning see Bernard, Jessie, Academic Women, University Park, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University, 1964 Google Scholar; Fischer, Ann and Golde, Peggy, “The Position of Women in Anthropology,” American Anthropologist, April 1968, vol. 70, pp. 337–343 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Rossi, Alice S., “Status of Women in Graduate Departments of Sociology, 1968–69,” American Sociologist, February 1970, vol. 5, pp. 1–11.Google Scholar
3 Jessie Bernard, op. cit., p. 30 reported that women constituted 19.5 percent of all faculty members in colleges and universities in July 1960.
4 Fischer and Golde, pp. 340–341, 343.
5 Rossi, pp. 5–7.