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thought that sex discrimination existed in the way their universities distributed salaries. In addition, 17.9 percent said that their universities practiced discrimination in hiring.
Cesari said, "Discrimination shouldn't occur. But I'd rather work around it, above it, through it, whatever, but just moaning about it isn't enough."
Another problem area for women faculty are conflicts with marriage and children. Harkess said that a parental leave policy for both men and women, instead of just a maternal leave policy, would benefit women. The University has a maternal leave policy.
"Right now, maternal leave is seen as a woman-oriented medical pro-tection," she said. "A woman is able to use her student or annual leave to recuperate."
Parental leave would give either the mother or the father the opportunity to stay home to take care of their children.
Roitman said that she and her husband, also a KU professor, experienced the problem of adjusting to college life. The two they adopted their 6-year-old son
"He landed smack in the middle of the semester," she said. "I couldn't take time off. I had to continue teaching. I couldn't let my department down. My husband also felt the same sort of pressures. But it's usually more of a problem for women than men."
The idea still exists in the work force that the man is earning the bulk of the income and someone else in the family is responsible for the child care, she said.
Faculty also said they thought that students' perceptions of women's work
Roitman said that when she first began her career at KU, students often mistook her for a secretary or graduate student.
When Roitman began teaching at KU in 1978, women students often asked her when she would receive her doctorate, she said. But Roitman had already received her doctorate in 1974. Such questions are not asked as often now, but they are still asked, Roitman said.
"If anything needs changing, male faculty needs to encourage women to go to graduate school and apply for their Ph.Ds," she said.
To Roitman, this shows that women don't really think they are capable of achieving the same heights in academia as men.
Ways to reach equality
The University has helped women advance over the years. Harkess said that the establishment of the women's studies program had promoted advancement for women by helping to legitimize the research of women by women.
But women have not reached equality yet, although attitudes about
"Because they're helped, others cannot fail to be helped," she said. "Women, too, can do research. Women, too, are ambitious."
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most faculty members start out with comparable jobs, she said, unlike the variety of jobs in private industry.
If all salaries were increased to be comparable, Harkess said, that would mean that many of the fields with lower-paying salaries, such as English, would receive a significantly upgraded salary.
The people who would object are the ones who receive merit salary increases on basis of performance, Harkess said. Those people would receive a smaller percentage of merit pay, because part of the money would be used to supplement other
Elizabeth Schultz, professor of English, said that every discipline of the social sciences should introduce feminist issues to bring equality and understanding to women's rights.
Harkess recommended a similar idea: that all students be required to take one of the women's studies courses before graduation.
She conceded that the idea might seem radical, but pointed out that half of the University population was female, and most of the other half would have some kind of contact with women during their lives.
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