Inside Higher Ed: Mandatory retirement as women’s issue
Mandatory retirement was once the norm in higher education — and most of the academics who had emeritus status forced on them were male.
Today, mandatory retirement is far from the norm and is illegal for faculty and many other positions. But a significant number of colleges, using loopholes in federal age-discrimination law that apply to executives and top decision-making officials, still have mandatory retirement for presidents and other top administrators.
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