Posted by baseball55 on December 23, 2013, at 22:04:10
In reply to Re: Women and academics, posted by Willful on December 23, 2013, at 0:37:27
My field is dominated by men. When I first finished my PhD (this was 1994, not that long ago), I was offered a job at a university that had 17 faculty, only one female. I was offered the job only after three men had declined offers. When I refused, they had the sole female faculty member call me to assure me the department was not sexist and hostile to women. Yeah, right.
I now teach in a department that takes affirmative action seriously. Half the faculty are female. But the field is still male-dominated. My undergraduate classes, with thirty students, usually have no more than 6-7 women.
And, of course, as an undergraduate and graduate student, I had virtually no female professors. One in undergraduate. One in graduate school.
Today, half of all medical school students and law students are women. But the faculty are still mostly male.
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