This study assessed the progress made by women in social work education in attaining top-level administrative positions—director of a baccalaureate program and dean or director of a master's degree program— from 1985 to 1996. It found that, unlike higher education in general, social work academia has made significant progress in redressing the gross imbalance of male to female leaders at the undergraduate and graduate levels and could well serve as amodel for other disciplines.
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