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> "We discarded college faculty in the same way that we discarded bookkeepers: by finally letting women do it after decades of declaring that impossible, and th
by tropdrop 8y ago
> "We discarded college faculty in the same way that we discarded bookkeepers: by finally letting women do it after decades of declaring that impossible, and then immediately reducing the status of the work once it became evident that women could, in fact, do it well."
That was a nod to the fact that "Women are not tenured at the same rate they are receiving PhDs, and less likely to be tenured
when compared to their male counterparts." [1]
1 - https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ913032.pdf https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ913032.pdf
- ulucs 8y agoThat fact means nothing when there is no control by field or any other correlated factors. That model also disregards every person who goes into industry.
- pdpi 8y agoThe control by field part is definitely very important — it can easily be a case of Simpson’s Paradox. However, the decision to go into industry is not at all independent from how you perceive your chances of getting tenure.