ABSTRACT
This chapter presents considerable evidence to substantiate the thesis that ascription and sponsored mobility are at least as potent in affecting the careers of university professors as are achievement and contest mobility. It focuses on the dissimilarity between the two examples of mobility, that is, whether movement is anticipatory or delayed. The chapter reviews the findings and reflections of almost two dozen other researchers in higher education. It also emphasizes the matters of how departments fill vacancies and of what qualities increase or lessen the chances of individuals for obtaining these positions. The Modern Language Association's Commission on the Status of Women examined an unspecified number of recommendations looking for depreciative remarks touching on the physical attributes and personality, marital status, and activities in women's studies and the contemporary feminist movement of young female literary scholars.
