It is not easy to clip and press what I am talking about inside the square boundaries of an “administrative problem.” The context has to do with the very clockwork of a career system that seems to eliminate women not so much through malevolent disobedience to good rules as through making up rules to suit […]

It is not easy to clip and press what I am talking about inside the square boundaries of an “administrative problem.” The context has to do with the very clockwork of a career system that seems to eliminate women not so much through malevolent disobedience to good rules as through making up rules to suit […]

It is often said that a good female “role model” can make up for the perva­sive discouragement women find in academe. By role model I mean simply a person whom a student feels she wants to be like or could become. It is someone she may magically incorporate into herself, someone who, inten­tionally or not, […]

It is often said that a good female “role model” can make up for the perva­sive discouragement women find in academe. By role model I mean simply a person whom a student feels she wants to be like or could become. It is someone she may magically incorporate into herself, someone who, inten­tionally or not, […]

The second explanation for the attrition of women in academe touches pri­vate inequality more directly: women sooner or later cool themselves out by a form of “auto-discrimination.” Here, inequality is conceived not as the mark of a chairperson’s pen, but as the consequence of a whole constella­tion of disadvantages that alter what a woman wants […]

The second explanation for the attrition of women in academe touches pri­vate inequality more directly: women sooner or later cool themselves out by a form of “auto-discrimination.” Here, inequality is conceived not as the mark of a chairperson’s pen, but as the consequence of a whole constella­tion of disadvantages that alter what a woman wants […]

When I entered Berkeley as a graduate student in 1962, і sat with some fifty other incoming students that first week in a methodology course. One of the two sociology professors on the podium before us said, “We say this to every incoming class and we’ll say it to you. Look to your left and […]

When I entered Berkeley as a graduate student in 1962, і sat with some fifty other incoming students that first week in a methodology course. One of the two sociology professors on the podium before us said, “We say this to every incoming class and we’ll say it to you. Look to your left and […]

An offhand remark made to me years ago has haunted me more and more ever since. I was talking at lunch with an acquaintance, and the talk turned, as it often does among women academicians just before it’s time to part, to “how you manage” a full teaching schedule and family and how you feel […]

An offhand remark made to me years ago has haunted me more and more ever since. I was talking at lunch with an acquaintance, and the talk turned, as it often does among women academicians just before it’s time to part, to “how you manage” a full teaching schedule and family and how you feel […]