The study reported here addressed the effect of gender on the academic
status of social work faculty of color by comparing the academic status
of 264 African-American women and men on social work faculty. It
found that a greater percentage of women than men held lower
academic ranks, were not tenured, and had not been members of
editorial boards of professional journals. The implications of this
pattern of inequality are discussed.
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