WOMEN AND THE COMMUNITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION:

Work Environment This paper examines the assumptions made about organizational and social equity and fairness in higher education institutions that prove to be untrue when applied to women. Through personal narrative and interviews with women faculty and professional staff, the paper presents a view of university work and life from the perspective of the women who experience it. Areas examined concern assignments to committees, program development in relation to academic and professional goals, faculty rewards and support, responsibilities and recognition, and pay and workload. Each of these areas is shown through the experiences of those interviewed, to contain practices which are discriminatory against women faculty and staff, and it is suggested that these occurrences are not extraordinary, but typical. It is argued that institutionalize