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Kevin Gannon@thetattooedprof.bsky.social |
There are a lot of problems that beset academia. This 👇 is one of the worst. How can we defend ourselves from the Rufos and DeSantises of the world when many of us can't even respect our colleagues enough to help equitably distribute labor?
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Viviane Pons
@pyviv.bsky.social
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One of problems is that the guys GET AWAY WITH IT while, as women, we can't. I often see completely inefficient men who are not even able to click on a link holding quite high positions in academia. People excuse their inefficiency because they are "good scientist"
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Mitchell Epner
@mitchellepner.bsky.social
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When my daughter (now 21) was young, if I did any hands-on parenting, strangers would come up and praise me for being "such a good father". Meanwhile, my wife frequently did much more without every eliciting any positive comments. The patriarchy is baked into the system.
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maegul
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While patriarchy is obviously baked in, the structural & cultural incentives of academia are part of this too, no? Like, are these dudes wrong? IME, they aren’t. That’s the game. And while I’m happy to hate the players, the game I’m this case deserves plenty of attention too.
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PeopleDied2Vote
@peopledied2vote.bsky.social
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It's because they can get away with it.
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Library Lagomorph
@bunnyjadwiga.bsky.social
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See "why librarians on academic committees"....
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Tuomas Kankaanpää
@bugwebs.bsky.social
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I think the specific secretarial and teaching positions should be brought back to academia instead of everyone having to compete in doing everything and getting rewarded for only one of those things. BUT, all these jobs should then have the same pay and people would compete to do the part they want.
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Mark Healey
@healeyparera.bsky.social
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<deep sigh> Clearly the problem goes far beyond linguistic framing, but on that trivial level, maybe calling these functions "academic housework" like the Norwegians do kind of gives the game away.
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Jack Werner
@jaxpgh.bsky.social
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I saw it every day the men who headed our biology and math departments constantly pushed off stuff that women would then pick up. We are talking necessary stuff like schedules.
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Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her)
@ichatterjea.bsky.social
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Its not like they don't also rush to take credit for their leadership in service endeavors without doing most or any of the work. Or, that's been my experience and observation.
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Michael Clark
@smintheus.bsky.social
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Equitable distribution of labor would mean faculty rejecting the adjunctification of the academy. What could be more disrespectful than to have badly paid drones take on teaching? Not to deny that senior faculty shirking admin duties is a real problem, but it's been common since at least the '60s.
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Christian Weller
@profcew.bsky.social
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It's the "I am not really good at it" that gets me. None of us are good at this at first.
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Julie Nelson Davis
@juliendavis.bsky.social
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Really appreciate you posting this. Depressingly the same as it ever was. Working on various levers to make change locally and across the institutions, but it is so slow and requires--yes--more service.
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Kristen Epps
@historyenthusiast.bsky.social
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One former colleague of mine actively messed up advising students on their classes, so they wouldn’t have to be an advisor anymore. Guess who ended up with all of their advisees….
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Showtime at the El Sleazo
@scottstoothpick.bsky.social
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The equivalent of this in K-12 is when women organize most of the student activities and men volunteer to “present.”
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Kevin Gannon
@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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I've seen this for my entire career. Dudes (always dudes) who would be the first to tell you how brilliant their scholarship is are also the dudes who, when confronted with the slightest chance they'd have to do service work, are all like "waaa I am just a smol bean who doesn't even do email good"
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Mary Joy
@maryjoy.bsky.social
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What is also frustrating is that men will be rewarded for this and women would also be punished for it (not collegial, etc).
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