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Potential Of Using Breast Milk As A Tool To Study Breast Cancer And Breast Cancer Risk, Kathleen Arcaro, Douglas L. Anderton
Potential Of Using Breast Milk As A Tool To Study Breast Cancer And Breast Cancer Risk, Kathleen Arcaro, Douglas L. Anderton
Douglas L. Anderton
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Class Struggle In Higher Education, Dan Clawson, Marisha Leiblum
Class Struggle In Higher Education, Dan Clawson, Marisha Leiblum
Dan Clawson
Public higher education has undergone a process similar to that in the national polity: a one-sided struggle by those with power to shape the institution to be more market driven, more focused on what will generate (non-state) revenues, more dominated by top administrators, and less concerned about the working class and people of color. This article examines these trends nationally with a focus on one case study, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the state’s public higher education flagship university. First the article examines the concentration of power in fewer hands. Second it looks at the squeeze in the middle, the …
Ethnic And Gender Satisfaction In The Military: The Effect Of A Meritocratic Institution, Jennifer H. Lundquist
Ethnic And Gender Satisfaction In The Military: The Effect Of A Meritocratic Institution, Jennifer H. Lundquist
Dr. Jennifer H. Lundquist
This article reevaluates traditional racial and gender disparities in the work satisfaction literature by examining the U.S. military: an institution that has ameliorated many racial inequalities while exacerbating gender conflict. The military departs from civilian society in some analytically useful ways, making it a unique, though underutilized, setting for examining inequality. Using data from the Pentagon’s 1999 Survey of Active Duty Personnel (SADP), results suggest that black males and females, Latino males and females, and white females all experience greater perceived benefits to military service than do white males along several dimensions of self-assessed job satisfaction and quality of life. …