15 July 2018: I am working on a project that is about lots of things--academia (specifically balancing the demands of scholarship, teaching, and service), gender, and nineteenth-century poet Lucy Larcom. (That last one sticks out, right?) Anyway, I've got a stack of articles I wanted to get through tonight, including this one, which considers a kind of glass ceiling that keeps women from getting promoted to full professor before their male peers. The authors argue that service work gets in the way--service work that their male colleagues don't do as much of.
Like any good study, it asks why women do more. And this passage made me laugh out loud. First, they speculate: "Perhaps women associate professors enjoy service more, while men prefer research?" Then, immediately: "None of our data fits this interpretation." Well, then... Ha!
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