I’m a dittohead for Zuska
SSAG contributor Suzanne Franks just cranks out one thought-provoking post after another over at her blog Thus Spake Zuska. Just about everything she writes about there is relevant to what our book and blog are about, too, so I’ve created the new category Zuska, Zuska, Zuska! to include the many links in which I anticipate I will be namechecking or quoting from her or responding to something that she wrote. We need to get a blogroll going here, too, but I think that might have to go on another page, since the menu on the right-hand side of the screen has quite a bit of information already.
Anyway, go read Zuska’s analysis of how people should have handled the incredibly rude situation when a male professor from the Stone Age snubbed a female academic. In a nutshell: if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.
January 30th, 2007 at 3:35 am
This reminds me of a story a collegue of mine told me about some of the complete turkeys he has interviewed over the years.
He was doing the non-technical part of the interview with a slightly more junior female collegue and before getting into the inverview room the interviewee asked her where she did her PhD. She hadn’t done one and said so (I don’t think male collegue was even asked) and in the inerview room he sits down with an interviewer on either side and puts his briefcase on the table in front of female interviewer (he SO did!). Both interviewers are amazed to say the least, so male interviewer gets up, gets himself a drink of water and sits back down on the same side of the table as female interviewer. Interviewee has then to remove his case from the table to see both of them.
Funnily enough he was NOT getting the job!!
To be fair rudeness is not limited to sexism and the same collegue has been blanked by a proffessor at a conference. Still nice to know this stuff is alive and well