Word: career
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Improvement played a big part of Mohler's earlybasketball career. Although he also played hockeyand baseball; Mohler decided to opt for basketballon the advice of a grade-school coach...
...year junior faculty plan is too inflexible for scholars with children and departments rely on women junior faculty to do a disproportionate amount of the administrative work. In addition, a more subtle bias against the non-traditional areas of research favored by some women faculty is an obstacle toward career advancement, these scholars...
Just take a gander at the Democratic field, which is rife with supposed nonpresidents, especially among the current leaders. Michael S. Dukakis began his career as a local attorney, then became a state legislator, then lieutenant governor, then governor, then governor again and soon...well, who knows? Jesse Jackson was a young civil rights leader in the 1960s. He didn't gain his prominence, even as the leading national Black leader, until he entered the presidential race in 1984. And let us not forget that Richard Gephardt is after all a simple congressman representing a portion of St. Louis...
Does this mystical "networking" really exist? Maybe it did fifty years ago, when a good majority of the undergraduates came from exclusive prep schools and already knew most of the people in their class. Then, elitism was pervasive in career and social advancement, from birth to silver spoons to death. I doubt Harvard could be characterized as perpetuating such a discriminatory system today...
Look at the Office for Career Services. It provides all undergraduates with extensive information about jobs. And female students already belong to another organization which excludes men, Radcliffe College. Radcliffe sponsors numerous programs for women that men don't participate in. I don't mean to condemn Radcliffe's offerings, I just mean to point out that women have access to many career resources...