The Ambiguity of the Part-Time Faculty. This is a comprehensive examination of the impact of increasing numbers of women coming into academia. Lomperis looks at the supply and demand sides of the equation. The supply of women has increased just as the demand for full-time faculty has decreased. The opportunity created for women by increasing their numbers in Ph.
D programs is offset.
Women are found in increasing numbers in fields that men have abandoned and in off track positions. New jobs being filled by women have not been the good jobs. Women are overrepresented in part-time positions. The total numbers of faculty increased in the period 1975 to 1985 but 75 percent of that increase was expansion of the part-time faculty. Women have become an increasing proportion of the part-timers.