Last week, this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education hit my inbox from a reader named 'Basma'. And then from 'Jessica' followed by 'Cheyanne'. The link continued trickling in over the weekend... Apparently readers are aware I occasionally have something to say about gender bias in academia (and out and somewhere in the space between). My friends 'round thesetangledseries of tubes don't put up with that sort of riffraff either. The piece begins like this:
As a female professor, are you called rude and abrasive while your male colleagues who make similar statements are simply labeled assertive? Has your department head discouraged you from taking an assignment, saying that because you have children you might not be able to handle it? If things like that have happened to you, yell: "Bingo!"
The Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law is unveiling a ...
