tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2433945320549143329.post8892686987895955689..comments2023-09-13T10:53:12.598-05:00Comments on Tullius est [et Tullius non est Cicero]: Sexism in AcademicsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15716893685688516529noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2433945320549143329.post-62312622866886436352015-04-14T22:41:31.908-05:002015-04-14T22:41:31.908-05:00Oh...listen to the whiny, white, male, tenured phi...Oh...listen to the whiny, white, male, tenured philosophy professor complain about 2 to 1 hiring rates in favor of women. This hiring rate isn't extreme enough, given that the first 1000 years or so of academia basically barred women from posts completely. If we lived in a just society, men wouldn't even be allowed in university settings. Men MUST PAY for the sexism of the past. <br /><br />Sexism against women is still rampant in the academy, Tully. It's implicit, which is why you can't see it (especially given that you are white and male). But it's REALLY BAD. EVERYWHERE. Why, just recently my female adviser, who is leaving her very cushy 2-2 teaching job for a senior post at another prominent school, inserted into our graduate seminar a small lecture on the terrible bias in the academy. The case: Jessica Wilson (professor at the U. of Toronto) and her recent paper "No Work for a Theory of Grounding". Wilson couldn't get her paper published for the longest of time. Never mind that it was a 50 page whopper that was much too big for most journals. Never mind that she presented it at so many places that it was extremely hard to get blind reviewers for it. It was definitely bias against her. And, never mind that she ended up winning a $15,000 award for the paper, which is almost all of my income for a whole year. We know that there was bias she had to overcome because reviewers INSULTINGLY made her add footnotes that acknowledged other authors who have written relevant things to the topic of the paper. Thank goodness everything turned out good in the end...she's one of the lucky ones (giant eye-roll).JSnoreply@blogger.com