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Scholarship March 29, 2017

“Women are Teachers, Men are Professors: A Study of Student Perceptions”

The Wabash Center

Author
Miller, JoAnn and Marilyn Chamberlin
Publisher
Teaching Sociology 28, no. 4 (2000): 283-298
Examines sociology student perceptions of faculty and graduate instructor educational attainment as a function of gender. Finds that students misattribute in an upward direction the level of education by male graduate instructors and in a downward direction the level of formal education attained by women, even if the female is a full professor.