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For women, achieving success in the art world—as artists or art historians—is difficult. As creative individuals in a male-dominated field, women in art share problems and aspirations with professional women in society as a whole. An inquiry into the value of women's studies in art and art history sheds light upon many problems inherent in the past and present politics of the art world, both within and outside of the university.1

The College Art Association Committee on the Status of Women (formerly the Women's Caucus of the C.A.A.) sent out a questionnaire to seek data on women faculty members in American colleges and universities, based on information published in their catalogues. 164 questionnaires were returned. Barbara Ehrlich White of the Dept. of Fine Arts, Tufts, University has prepared a statistical analysis of this information with the assistance of Leon S. White, a specialist in Operations Research at M.LT.The 164 departments came from institutions located in 29 states. 129 depart-ments offer art history and studio, 20 art history only, II studio only, 4 art education only.