Word: academia
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They are asked to sit on committees and task forces, serves as mentors to younger faculty, advise graduate students and run meetings—all in an attempt to increase diversity and ensure all views are heard and younger women are encouraged to stick with academia...
...Gray ascended to the highest echelons of academia, she was often the first woman to receive serious thought from search committees along...
...woman who rose first and farthest in academia began her pursuit of higher education early: she entered Bryn Mawr College...
Perhaps such harsh treatment of others is a by-product of the harsh treatment to which many of us subject ourselves. Maybe a part of the meanness comes from the nature of academia, which advances by finding faults with the present body of knowledge. Or it could even be a symptom of having such a small proportion of students deeply adhere to some religious faith or other source of moral codes...
Seidman completed her doctorate in 1990, and entered a favorable job market in academia. She was offered a position in the Sociology Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, which has one of the “top-ranked sociology departments in the country...