The Michigan Daily - Thursday, May 12, 1983- Page 11
Gains unequal for women profs

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racquetball quite often, but I don't go
with them," Yano said.
Personal adjustments are compoun-
ded when a woman faculty member
must strive to retain her position at the
University. The race to pack up points
for service, accumulate publications,
and develop a teaching style is part of
the tenure game.
IN THE past it has been more dif-
ficult for women to attain tenure, which
guarantees permanent employment at
the University.
Subtle pressures, such as extra
committee work, lack of caaraderie
within a department, or having
children can delay tenure. Some
women professors said they feel the
need to do more work than their male
collegues to get the same recognition in
the same amount of time.
"Some colleagues. told me that I'd
have been promoted a lot sooner if I had
been a man," said Marion Marzolf, the
Panel
says cut
phys. ed.
by 30%
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school's physiology department, or the
School of Public Health are places
where the department might fit in well,
according to the panel which examined
the department as part of the education
school review.
Wherever it is moved, the depar-
tment's funds should be allocated
through the school it is placed in, the
budget committee said.
Unlike any other department at the
University, physical education is fun-
ded from the central administration.
The education school dean cannot
reduce funds to the department unless
all the other departments in the school
are also reduced. The arrangement has
created considerable tension between
the school's administration and the
physical education department.
ALTHOUGH the committee recom-
mended substantialchanges in the un-
dergraduate physical education
programs, graduate programs would
stay the same.
The committee said that the depar-
tment has traditionally "been an entry
point for some student athletes whose
admissions profile is less promising
than that of students entering other
units at the University. We believe that
the University as a whole should deal
with the issue . .. the matter should not
fall to one department."
To prevent this so called "backdoor"
admission of some athletes, the com-
mittee recommended that the depar-
tment only admit students with a
"reasonable" chance of graduating,
and that academic units and the
athletic department provide athletes
with special counseling and tutoring
and actively encourage them to use the
services.
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only female full professor in the com-
munication department. "You have the
impression that you have to be a lot
better to be promoted."
"IT REALLY is true women don't get
promoted at the same rate as men,
regardless of the good intentions of
people," said June Howard, assistant
professor in the English department.
The tenure system refuses to ac-
comodate certain conditions, such as
beinga wife and mother.
Extra committee work limits the
amount of time women have to spend on
their own research, which could hurt
their chances for tenure.
"I get phone calls asking me to be on
a committee just because they need a
woman," said Dr. Anita Payne,
professor in the Department of Ob-
stetrics and Gynecology.
PAYNE SAID this is especially
detrimental to younger women faculty

members.
"Some young women get loaded down
with committee work and this isn't
good, because young women need to be
doing research and publishing to get
promoted," she said.
Many department chairmen are
aware of this problem and warn young
female faculty members not to overex-
tend themselves.
SOME WOMEN faculty, however,
hurt their own chances for advan-
cement when they play down their ac-
complishments. 'ayne said.
"The way women are brought up,
they're not as likely to talk about their
work, and in turn, it may be more dif-
ficult for them to be promoted," she
said.
While women can now publish the
same as their male counterparts and
get recognition, Payne said, they still
ha- n harm me oinv tenure-

THERE were qualified women in
the Medical School this year who should
have received tenure, but did not, she
said.
"They had thequalifications but ab-
solutely no effort was made to tenure
them," shesaid.
It is tougher to get tenure now than in
past years, for both men and women,
said William Zimmerman, associate
dean of LSA for academic appointmen-
ts. It takes a long time to work up the
ladder whether a professor is male or
female, he said. Out of 750 faculty
members in LSA, at present 600 are
tenured.
"WE'RE NO longer in the position
where we can promote someone who's a
super teacher, and only an adequate
researcher," Zimmerman said. "We
also cannot promote someone who's a
super scholar if he or she is not an
adequate teacher."