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This article focuses on women in the academic profession and reports a study of the social origins of Greek university staff and their career pattern. Data show that women have made few gains as university professors over the past twenty years. The gains recorded in Greece are the result of democratization of the university. As women enter the academy, particularly on teaching staffs, they tend to be older and from more middle-class professional backgrounds than are their male peers. The author notes that the entry of women as academics occurs at a time when universities are experiencing a decline in real and symbolic power.
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Eliou, M. (1991). Women in the academic profession: Evolution or stagnation?. In: Kelly, G.P., Slaughter, S. (eds) Women’s Higher Education in Comparative Perspective. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3816-1_10
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