Miner, Anne S.
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Anne S. Miner, a professor emeritus known for her research on management and organizational learning, worked at Stanford University in the 1970s as a consultant to the president on affirmative action for women and as the university’s affirmative action officer. She is recognized for her work in designing and implementing the hiring policies and practices related to under-represented minorities. This oral history focuses on the employment status of women faculty at Stanford and, to some extent, throughout academia from the 1970s to the present. The first interview session revolve around Miner’s early life and education, her first job at Stanford in the Development Office, her involvement in the burgeoning “women’s movement,” and her work as consultant to the Stanford president on affirmative action for women in 1971. She discusses policy issues that affected women faculty and the formation of the Women’s Forum and the Committee on the Education and Employment of Women. In the first and second interview sessions, Miner talks about her role as consultant to the president and the issues she handled, including Stanford’s policies regarding married couples’ faculty appointments, maternity and paternity leaves, the “tenure clock” as it affected women, and part-time employment of faculty. She also discusses the government regulations being passed in the 1970s that required affirmative action programs for all federal contractors and the pressure these regulations put on American universities. Miner details issues such as salary equity for staff; training programs for faculty and staff to increase awareness of affirmative action requirements and procedures; child care needs, policies and practices; her role in ensuring that academic searches included women and minorities; and the creation of the Stanford Center for Research on Women in 1974 (now the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research). Miner then recalls her decision to leave her job in order to pursue doctoral study at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, her life as a female student with a small child, and the impact affirmative action had on her life as a student. In the third and final interview session, Miner discusses her job as a professor of business at the University of Wisconsin and her primary focus and impact in the field of organizational behavior. Looking back, Miner reflects on how her Stanford experience in affirmative action has impacted the rest of her career. She also reflects on the progress women have, and have not, made over the past forty-three years, as well as the issues that still remain. As the interview concludes, Miner offers advice to young women embarking on their academic careers today.
Description
| Type of resource | mixed material |
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| Date created | June 24, 2014 - June 28, 2014 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Miner, Anne S. | |
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| Contributing author | Devaney, Patricia L. | |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
| Subject | Anne Miner |
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| Subject | Stanford Historical Society |
| Subject | oral histories |
| Subject | interviews |
| Subject | higher education |
| Subject | professors |
| Subject | pioneering women |
| Subject | universities and colleges > administration |
| Subject | universities and colleges > faculty |
| Subject | universities and colleges > graduate work |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/rr468nd9854 |
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- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Preferred citation
- Preferred Citation
Miner, Anne S. (2014). Oral
History. Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program Interviews (SC0932). Department of
Special Collections & University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/rr468nd9854
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Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program interviews, 1999-2022
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