Abstract
No scholarly work on the role and activities of the deans of men can or should go too long without some mention of the deans of women. As at least one dean of women, Irma Voight of Ohio Wesleyan noted, the deans of men were probably created out of appreciation for the work of the deans of women.1 In contrast to the deans of men, there have been a number of very good scholarly treatments of the deans of women. Two of them are books, Jana Nidifer’s Pioneering Deans of Women: More than Wise and Pious Matrons published in 2000 and Carolyn Bashaw’s Stalwart Women: A Historical Analysis of Deans of Women in the South published in 1999.2 Three contemporary dissertations include Kathryn Nemeth Tuttle’s What Became of the Deans of Women: Changing Roles for Women Administrators in American Higher Education from 1996; Lynn Gangone’s NavigatingTurbulence: A Case Study of a Voluntary Higher Education Association, and Schwartz’s The Feminization of A Profession: Student Affairs Work in American Higher Education, 1890–1945.3 There have been several articles in the recent higher education literature on deans of women as well. So the overview that follows is meant to provide only a brief, not exhaustive, perspective on the deans of women in comparison to the deans of men.
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