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...with delight, not distress, that I read "Women: Still Unequal" [Oct. 1]. Clark Kerr reports, the Carnegie Commission endorses and TIME has published a fact that women's colleges have known for much more than a decade. In single-sex institutions young women enjoy the special advantages they cannot obtain elsewhere, namely leadership positions, full participation in all academic activities and an abundance of role models...
...tone and philosophy, the commission's output reflects the optimistic views of its chairman, Clark Kerr, longtime president of the University of California. Kerr had already agreed to act as the commission's part-time chairman when in January 1967, he was abruptly fired for his opposition to Governor Ronald Reagan's budget-cutting plans for U.C. Working virtually full time for the commission, Kerr led its support for the basic structure of the present U.S. higher educational system. Though the system is now undergoing "its greatest trauma of self-doubt," notes the final report, the commission...
...before the year 2000 and perhaps not even then will the percentage of women and minority members on faculties be in proportion to their representation in the labor force," Dr. Clark Kerr, commission chairman, said this week...
Distressing Aspect. The most controversial conclusion of the commission's report may be its endorsement, after a decade of increasing coeducation, of women's colleges. "All the Carnegie reports have favored diversity, not homogeneity, in American higher education," says Kerr, "but we have found special advantages in these schools for women." The report cites recent research which shows that a high proportion of successful women are graduates of single-sex colleges. In such institutions, they tend to speak up more in class, hold more positions of leadership, and have more women teachers and administrators to emulate. At women...
...What Kerr calls "the most distressing aspect of this report" is the commission's estimate that women cannot possibly achieve academic equality "until about the year 2000." Today, when new college teachers are still being hired, there are not enough women available with the right training. In the '80s sagging enrollments will reduce the need for new professors, and "pressing for more women faculty will be like pressing for more women conductors on passenger trains." Not until the 1990s, when enrollments are expected to rise again, can women really expect to catch up. Says the commission, "This...