Authors discuss their new book on gender equity in academe

Why do faculty women still face bias and an unwelcome reception in so much of higher education? What can institutions do about it? These are the questions that frame Building Gender Equity in the Academy: Institutional Strategies for Change (Johns Hopkins University Press). The authors are Sandra Laursen, director and senior research associate of Ethnography & Evaluation Research at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Ann E. Austin, associate dean for research in the College of...