Black Women, Academe, and the Tenure Process in the United States and the Caribbean
This book explores the meanings, experiences, and challenges faced by Black women faculty that are either on the tenure track or have earned tenure. The authors advance the notion of comparative intersectionality to tease through the contextual peculiarit
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Talia Esnard · Deirdre Cobb-Roberts
Black Women, Academe, and the Tenure Process in the United States and the Caribbean
Talia Esnard University of the West Indies St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Deirdre Cobb-Roberts University of South Florida Tampa, FL, USA
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Preface
Globally, “gender equality and female empowerment” remain a major issue on the development agenda particularly in relation to the areas of health, family, work, and education. And so much so that this remains one of the major Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) like the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) before it. Within this broad context, and in particular relation to education, there has been a lot of scholarly work as it relates to ensuring female access to education at all levels: primary/elementary, secondary/high school and tertiary/college. Relatedly, there has also been a major focus on female involvement in the STEM field area as well as the gendered nature of the labor market itself. However, one area that has not received as much scholarly and policy attention has been the challenges many women face in relation to tenure and promotion at the university level of education. In addition, this attention has been even been sparser as it relates to the experiences of women of color in general a
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