So I saw the pile of four books with which my colleague, hired after me, is coming up for promotion and I said: why have I not produced four books?
But my colleague was hired with joy, not begrudgingly, and was welcomed upon his arrival, not suspected of low designs. He has a housewife who is ABD; she gets the errands and a certain amount of his work done, and she takes care of the house. He comes home to organic meals and brings carefully packed, gourmet lunches.
Their parents provide them plane tickets to their sophisticated home cities when the weather is bad here. They keep apartments in these places, which have good libraries, and get a lot of work done.
My colleague is also not required to teach in the basic language program, and he is given new computers. He also has a far narrower teaching range than I do generally, and is not required to present his projects for local approval to a panel composed of instructors with M.A.s.
His field is considered a “center of excellence” here, whereas I have it in writing from the university that I am “in a narrow field [it] does not support.”
I am noticing the male privilege here, and the class privilege owning apartments in certain cities represents. The rest of it is discrimination. I am not willing to tolerate it any more.
#OccupyHE.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 