‘Post-Civil Rights Era’ Gender Discrimination

As a volunteer for BCRW this summer, Dana Freshley explored BCRW’s publications. In this post, she summarizes some of the central issues in BCRW’s second New Feminist Solutions report.

BCRW’s New Feminist Solutions report, Women, Work, and the Academyexplains that gender discrimination did not disappear with the civil rights movement. The many protests in the 1960s and the passage of the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education did move mountains, but now gender discrimination exists in a different form – it’s in everyday interactions, according to Alison Wylie, feminist scholar at the University of Washington.

Daily decisions made in the workplace, no matter how small, contribute to the overall problem of gender discrimination. Although there have been dramatic increases to the amount of women in academia, women are still the minority in leadership positions. In this New Feminist Solutions report (PDF), Wylie says, “women continue to be under-represented at senior levels of the professoriate, especially in graduate training institutions; they continue to be disproportionally employed in part-time and non-tenure-stream positions; and they continue to be under compensated relative to their male counterparts.” Several universities have tried to address this problem with targeted hiring, but some argue that these efforts leave many women in academia wondering if they attained certain prizes or positions just because of their gender.

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