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Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe

Judith Glazer-Raymo. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999, 200 pp., $38

MARY W. GRAY

THE MYTH THAT GLAZER-RAYMO seeks to shatter is that women have made great progress in academe. But when we consider the status of women in academe, we may confront not so much a myth as a glass half empty or half full. On the positive side, there have been enormous increases over the past thirty years in the numbers of women enrolling in graduate and professional schools (with exceptions in some scientific and technological fields); the rising numbers in ...

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