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Freakdom in IHE

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It’s incredible that people can be this stupid:

In Canada, women represent only 21.8% of full professors while constituting 36% of associate professors, 43% of assistant professors, and 60% of university student populations. In contrast, men represent 78% of full professors, although comprising 40% of student enrollment.

It must be clear even to somebody permanently brain-damaged that when these 50, 60 and 70-year-old male full professors enrolled in college men did not comprise 40% of student enrollment. Yet the idiot keeps eagerly comparing apples to hot-air balloons and spawns a mile-long piece that only grows more stupid with every sentence.

4 responses to “Freakdom in IHE”

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    Shakti

    Apples, oranges. Obviously I can say nothing about Canada.

    In 1966 in America, women comprised 42.7% of the collegiate student population, while men comprised 57.3%. Is fair to say that men were over represented among the ranks of professors in America relative to college population at that time?

    Coincidentally as as more women obtained Ph.Ds the pipeline to tenure dried up according to the many articles in the Chronicle

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Promotion to Full professorship is such a complex issue that to reduce it to “poor women don’t get promoted because they take care of infants and can’t do research at the age of 50+” is nothing short of ridiculous. The very assumption that an active research record helps one get Full Professorship is a gross generalization. At Cornell, yes, absolutely. Where I work? Ha ha. If anything, it’s an impediment. I know that my success as a research scholar is the biggest obstacle to me getting Full Professorship. And even though I gave birth to Klara very late in life, she will be in middle school by the time I can go up for promotion. So this definitely can’t be blamed on her. Or on my gender.

      This is a sore issue right now because I know that my personal chances at a Full professorship are compromised by my success as a researcher. My gender definitely has nothing whatsoever to do with it.

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        Shakti

        Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. It is my understanding that full professor lines have dried up over time, so more people are competing for fewer tenure track jobs and must do more by whatever rubrics (research, service, whatever) are used by a committee of potential peers. So full professor ranks are tilted toward older men who have had to do comparatively less in research and service than any people who are on the track or adjuncts today.

        So if this particular institution doesn’t value an active research record as you say, what do they value?

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        1. Clarissa Avatar
          Clarissa

          Sitting on stupid committees. 😦

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