Word: genderism
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...glasses and a spacious office to boot—is one of 88 senior women out of the 439 tenured faculty members in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Many of these women are of Carey’s generation, scholars who spent their formative years battling explicit gender discrimination to reach the vanguards of their respective fields...
...just wanted to get this out on the table,” says Jones Professor of American Studies Lizabeth Cohen. A member of the newly formed Senior Faculty Caucus for Gender Equality, Cohen is heartened that her concerns are ringing loud and clear...
This kind of implicit gender discrimination is further aggravated by a lack of senior women in the decision-making process. The most important recommendations for a tenure offer come from a department’s chair and senior faculty, but of FAS’s 30 primary departments, only seven have female chairs—including temporary and acting chairwomen...
SASSI-WOOFCLUBS co-chair Maureen D. Connolly ’06 agreed, pointing to the gender inequality of the clubs as an unaddressed issue...
...think we failed to really examine the big picture,” Connolly wrote in an e-mail. “An even bigger problem is the widespread acceptance of a club network that continues to endorse gender inequity...It is a matter of trying to deconstruct an antiquated system of social inequity...