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Constrained Choices: A View of Campus Service Inequality From Annual Faculty Reports

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  • KerryAnn O’Meara
  • Alexandra Kuvaeva
  • Gudrun Nyunt

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Time is a valuable resource in academic careers. Empirical evidence suggests women faculty spend more time in campus service than men. Yet some studies show no difference when relevant variables are included. The primary source of data for most workload studies is cross-sectional surveys that have several weaknesses. This study investigated campus service inequality and factors that predict it at 1 research university using a novel and more comprehensive source of data - annual faculty reports. The investigation was guided by Kanter’s work on the role of power and representation and Lewis and Simpson’s rereading of Kanter’s work to focus on gender, power, and representation. The authors examined 1,146 records of faculty campus service during 2 years. In both years, women faculty reported more total campus service than men while controlling for race, rank, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and the critical mass of women in a department. When considering levels of service, women reported higher numbers of service activities at the department and university levels. Women in male-dominated fields tended to have service workloads more like their peers and less like women in non-STEM fields. The article concludes with considerations regarding implications for organizing practices that maintain inequity between men and women in campus service.

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  • KerryAnn O’Meara & Alexandra Kuvaeva & Gudrun Nyunt, 2017. "Constrained Choices: A View of Campus Service Inequality From Annual Faculty Reports," The Journal of Higher Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 88(5), pages 672-700, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:uhejxx:v:88:y:2017:i:5:p:672-700
    DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2016.1257312
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    2. Navdeep Dhillon & Gurvinder Kaur, 2021. "Self-Assessment of Teachers’ Communication Style and Its Impact on Their Communication Effectiveness: A Study of Indian Higher Educational Institutions," SAGE Open, , vol. 11(2), pages 21582440211, June.

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