Shattering the Myths

An extremely important book... Glazer-Raymo demonstrates that although gender discrimination has evolved and now appears in different forms, it nonetheless remains a characteristic feature of academe, and women academics continue to pay a disproportionate price.

[Glazer-Raymo] blends a life history approach with the current statistical results of large research studies.

I highly recommend this book. It is useful for everyone in higher education, particularly for women who may find the information and stories resonating with their own lives. The author successfully deconstructs higher education using a feminist perspective and provides suggestions for future action.

An insightful and critical analysis of the status of women in higher education during the past 25 years.

Shattering the Myths is an unsettling book for women and should be the same for men. In essence, little has changed in the last 30 years to substantively improve the status of women in higher education and other professions or the cultural underpinnings that would make status advancement possible... Well researched.

Judith Glazer-Raymo is the Susan Faludi of higher education, portraying the frustrated ambitions of women in the academy and the backlash against them. Everyone interested in what has happened to women in the academy during the past twenty years should read this important and insightful book.