Description:
Three trailblazing female professors hired in the late 1960s and early 1970s discuss their childhoods, educational and research efforts, personal lives, and accomplishments, as well as challenges they faced during their inspiring, groundbreaking careers.
Brief description:
Lois B. Defleur is president emerita, SUNY BInghampton. She served as president at Binghampton from 1990 to 2010. She was dean of Washington State University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences from 1981 to 1986, and directed the NIMH Doctoral Training Program in Deviant Behavior from 1972 to 1979. She was provost at University of Missouri, Columbia, from 1986 to 1990.
Review Quotes:
"A rich source of hypotheses about how and why the proportion of white men who are faculty and university leaders is decreasing. Readers with a bent toward history may find it intriguing to see how the addition of female faculty was not tokenism. Their appointments strengthened departments."
--Don A. Dillman, Regents Professor, WSU Department of Sociology, and Deputy Director for Research and Development, Social and Economic Sciences Research Center