rm ([personal profile] rm) wrote2009-03-31 10:26 am

"scarce" resources, college and sexism

And then there's this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/opinion/23britz.html

It's the sort of thing that makes it hard for me to imagine any world in which women, at least as a group, don't always lose.

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[identity profile] rm.livejournal.com 2009-03-31 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Everyone I know who works in admissions is female. The possibility that women are once again enforcing the idea of competition for imaginarily scarce resources on each other really disturbs me.

[identity profile] mellacita.livejournal.com 2009-03-31 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Everyone in my admissions office was female (Except the Director and Assistant Director. Naturally.) This was almost 15 years ago, but the female admissions officers exhibited the same sentiments and behaviors as are beng described here.

[identity profile] stardragonca.livejournal.com 2009-03-31 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I hadn't realised. Ow!
"God bless the Squire, and his relations...":(