In article <200003271540.JAA06038 at mail.tamu.edu>, "Julia Frugoli"
<jfrugoli at bio.tamu.edu> wrote:
>I think industry is going to pull all the women who can't stand
the
>hierarchical games out of academia, which may be good for these
women
>personally, but not good for women as a group. The games may
not be gone in
>industry, but with a bottom line they can't dominate the way
they do in
>academics, and putting up with them becomes more lucrative.
Until academia
>feels some kind of pain by ignoring the contributions of major
sections of
>the population (women, blacks, hispanics, etc) I'm afraid the
games will
>continue and those who perpetuate them will remain in academia.
>>A bit cynical for a Monday morning :)
Cynical, maybe, but pragmatic, too. I agree wholeheartedly, and I
don't see academia responding anytime soon. They've gotten along
fine without women and minorities so far, and as long as there's
a
big supply of qualified applicants they won't need to change. And
I personally feel guilty for bailing out to industry - I always
bemoaned the lack of female professors in my departments.
The comparison to the computer industry was very interesting - I
didn't know it was such a high-pressure situation, although I had
heard that older workers were pretty much out of the running.
Sounds like a rather scary field.
-giner
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