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J school yet to hire full-time woman prof CHRIS DOLGENOW Of the Emerald The School of Journalism has yet to hire a full-time woman for its faculty. One woman teaches part-time, but Dean Galen Rarick says the department hopes to add a full-time woman after concluding the present search. Rarick says the low number of women applicants for recent fac ulty positions and the high per centage (about 50 percent) of vis iting female assistant professors, prove the department does not discriminate. The school’s faculty reflects the national situation, he explains, since roughly 32 percent of faculty appointments in jour nalism nationwide are held by women. But those statistics do not re flect a society composed of more women than men, says Norma McFadden, assistant compliance officer for Affirmative Action. “That's why we’re in operation.” Rarick says the school supports this policy. “Other things being equal, we'd probably go with the female (when hiring),” he says. “But we re going to pick the person who’s best qual ified." Women usually have less ex perience than their male com petitors, Rarick says. But he thinks that will change in the com ing years. The two men hired for the last open positions were selected from a 21-4 male to female ratio of applicants for one position, and from a 9-2 ratio for the other. Those positions required “an unusual combination of skills and experience,” Rarick says. The present openings for an assistant and associate professor with more ordinary skills should attract a broader range of applicants, and more women, he adds. To comply with affirmative ac tion goals for filling visiting profes sorships, the school has em ployed women for 33 to 50 percent of those appointments for the pas three years, Rarick says. “Women’s situation in jour nalism has improved. Of course affirmative action has had some thrust in that direction, but I’ve never seen any indication that the department was dragging its feet.” The school’s one woman fa culty member, part-time Assistanl Prof. Mary Hartman, agrees thai the school is doing its best to meel hiring goals. “The department is very con scious of affirmative action,” she says. “They want the best people to teach these students." “I’m the only woman here, which may look like women are being discriminated against, bul they are very definitely not.” Like Rarick, Hartman would like to see more women apply. She accounts for a male-dominated faculty by pointing to the lack of female applicants rather than the school’s policy. “If they (the school) didn’t com ply with the law, they have AA on their- backs. But they can’t hire women if they don't apply,” Hart man says. To attract more women applic ants, Rarick distributed a memorandum to the associate professor search committee, ad dressing the importance of com pliance with set affirmative action goals to hire at “least one woman or minority for the full-time faculty by the start of the 1980-81 academic year.” In addition, he notified female dominated scholastic publications of the search. But despite those measures, the majority of applicants are still likely to be men, Rarick says, a fact he attributes to high demand for qualified female faculty throughout the country and an in creased interest on the part of women entering journalism in pro fessional careers rather than in teaching. However, Hartman attributes the lack of female applicants to more fundamental factors. No matter how liberated the woman, she says, raising a family and working as a professor is "ex tremely difficult.” "Only since I’Ve taken this job have I realized how much time it takes to do both jobs well.” Hart man says she falls into the ranks of women who do not try for full time positions because “she just couldn’t keep up with it.” That barrier is a common one, McFadden asserts. “Many women find it hard to balance ev erything they see must be done.” And though Hartman is the only female in the School of Jour nalism, she says "it’s too darned early” for affirmative action to say what the optimum ratio should be. "Affirmative action is a very slow process of correcting a situa tion. We have to be working at it now so another generation will reap the benefits.” G4MP7 SALE! 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