can i just say amen to that last comment of yours. even when feminists start in on women and earth/emotions/mysticism/etc, it makes my 21st century brain go into overdrive. hello, self-ghettoizing.
he's totally right about tenure. we're at Princeton, at which the admin has tried in a number of ways to equalize the tenure/family problem, without success. lesser administrators (department chairs, etc) find ways to continue punishing both male and female faculty members for having families (female faculty disproportionately).
in fact, here, you get an "extra" year to get tenure for each child you have, whether you are male or female. good idea, right? unfortunately, that just means that you ahve to get 6 years of sprinting done instead of 5 (when the idea is that you should have 6 years to get 5 years of sprinting done, so that you have a year to devote to being a parent.
by sprinting, i mean that my husband was working on the order or 80 hours a week during my son's first year. they wanted to "give" him an "extra" year, and i insisted he not take it, because i wanted him to be part of my son's first few years at least. the policy is a good idea with bad execution. i think that's common.
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he's totally right about tenure. we're at Princeton, at which the admin has tried in a number of ways to equalize the tenure/family problem, without success. lesser administrators (department chairs, etc) find ways to continue punishing both male and female faculty members for having families (female faculty disproportionately).
in fact, here, you get an "extra" year to get tenure for each child you have, whether you are male or female. good idea, right? unfortunately, that just means that you ahve to get 6 years of sprinting done instead of 5 (when the idea is that you should have 6 years to get 5 years of sprinting done, so that you have a year to devote to being a parent.
by sprinting, i mean that my husband was working on the order or 80 hours a week during my son's first year. they wanted to "give" him an "extra" year, and i insisted he not take it, because i wanted him to be part of my son's first few years at least. the policy is a good idea with bad execution. i think that's common.