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Mary Turner Lane

1918–2009 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineWomen's complaints and affirmative action at UNC, 1970–19941970–1994 · 67 events · From 1970 UNC women challenged the University's limits on admitting women and its treatment of women employees, through Female Liberation's demands, a federal complaint by the Women's Equity Action League and later complaints by NOW and the Association of Women Students. The Faculty Council's 1973 report found gaps between men and women in hiring, pay and promotion. UNC's first affirmative action plan took effect in July 1973 but was rejected by HEW, and a revised plan followed in 1974; by that fall women made up 17.6 percent of the faculty. A federal agency upheld NOW's complaint in 1976, a religion professor lost her discrimination suit in 1978, and in 1981 Gillian Cell became UNC's first full-time affirmative action officer. In 1980 the Faculty Council's women's committee found no women hired as full professors since 1974, and in 1984 it reported that women in tenure-track posts had barely grown in a decade. Cell left the post in 1983 and in 1985 became dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The University adopted a maternity leave policy in 1985, and in 1989 the women's committee reported that women held only 9 percent of full professorships. In 1990 and 1991 women in University housing maintenance and the School of Dentistry filed harassment grievances, and in 1992 the women's committee reported that all four full professorships awarded in 1990-91 went to men. In 1993 a state judge found sexual harassment in a Physical Plant grievance and the EEOC found sex discrimination in a tenure denial, and in 1994 the Faculty Council set goals for hiring women.

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  1. Faculty women found the Association for Women Faculty The group served as a support network and forum on women's issues at the university. It later created the Mary Turner Lane award. People: Mary Turner Lane Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · Pamela Dean, Women on the Hill: A History of Women at the University of North Carolina (1987), scan p. 34
  2. The university approves a women's studies program with Mary Turner Lane as director An ad hoc committee named in March 1974 recommended the program, which became a major within interdisciplinary studies. Lane served as half-time director and built the first course, Women's Studies 50, with Joan Scott. Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Joan ScottSearch the index · Pamela Dean, Women on the Hill: A History of Women at the University of North Carolina (1987), scan p. 30 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, April 21, 1977, p. 2; The Daily Tar Heel, February 1, 1979, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, March 5, 1997, p. 3
  3. Faculty committee reports UNC's poor record in hiring and promoting women faculty The Committee on the Status of Women, chaired by Mary Turner Lane, told the Faculty Council that while women students had gained in the past ten years, women in tenure-track faculty posts had grown only from 270 in 1974 to 276 in 1983, no women had been named to administrative posts, and the University needed child care and a formal maternity-leave policy. People: Mary Turner Lane Place: Faculty Council, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, May 24, 1984, p. 1

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Oral history interview with Mary Turner Lane, September 9 and 16, 1986 ; May 21, 1987 ; October 1 and 28, 1987: interview L-0039, Southern Oral History Program

Lane, Mary Turner · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Mary Turner Lane (1918-2009) was the founding director of women's studies at UNC Chapel Hill. Across five sessions recorded by Pamela Dean between September 1986 and October 1987, she traces her upbringing, her parents' regard for education, her years at Salem College, a start in elementary teaching, and a later career as faculty member and administrator at the university, including the program's founding and women's social position on campus. Over five hours; electronic edition from the UNC library, 2007, through Documenting the American South.

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