(NAME-MCE) Tenure at MIT

[jean miller]

we know from ample research that women have been "discouraged" from participating, excelling and doing graduate work in the very strongly held traditionally male fields of math and science.  So if a woman is hired by MIT for a tenure track position, doesn't it seem likely that she is AT LEAST twice as accomplished as her male counterparts?  
sexism, like racism, is not about the INTENT of the practitioners, but about the IMPACT of the actions.

regards and enjoy a pleasant winter solstice.
jean


"Heumann, Michele Ann" <mheum2 at uis.edu> wrote: 

I don't believe that there is sufficient evidence in this article to conclude that there is any kind of bias when granting tenure at MIT.  How do we know that the female tenure candidates qualified for tenure in the first place?  How do we know that the reason they didn't receive tenure was because of gender discrimination?
 
The lone woman receiving tenure this year even said: "I've had nothing but a fabulous experience in the economics department.  I've experienced and preceived no issues in regard to gender."
 
I think that more evidence needs to be presented to assume that there is any unfair bias when granting tenure at MIT.
 
For more information, see
 
http://chronicle.com/news/article/3574/tenure-at-mit-still-goes-mainly-to-men
 
Michele Heumann      




jean miller
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