TheHermitage: Unrealistic Expectations: Counterpoint

Over at Scientopia I play Devil's Advocate to my original Unrealistic Expectations post. Gotta get those pageviews, by hook or by hypocrisy!

Wimminz in Academia, now with 100% Fewer Babies

What the heck is this, Hermitage? You may ask. This is where I'm re-displaying the awesome Q&A I hosted with a panel of female academics. They answered 4 epic questions on what it was like to be a woman in academia, with the caveat that they could not concern children in any way. Because I'm ebil like that.

The questions were:

1. How do you command the attention, and respect, of men in academic settings (e.g. classroom, conferences, faculty meetings)?

2. How should women dealing with a two-body problem handle assumptions that their career is secondary to their partner’s?

3. What would you like to see from tenure-track and not-yet-tenure-track menfolk? How can they pitch in?

4. How do you deal with insinuations that you were only chosen for a position/award/etc because of affirmative action?

The hub page linking to all their answers is here. You can also navigate to their pages directly and look for the 'AcademicWomensansBabies' tag to find their answers. Enjoy my muffins!

Keywords

D-List Monktress-the one and only Hermitage.

n00b-What I once was. Consider it like a caterpillar before chrysalis. Potentially an extremely stupid caterpillar.

Previous Awesome PI (PAPI)- An old PI that rocks my world and is generally the awesomesauce.

Professional Haughty Douchenozzle (PhD)-That special breed of graduate student that seems to subsist entirely upon being an asshole.

Professor Positive-My current PI who is perpetually upbeat. Also the awesomesauce.

Yes We Rock and You Can Suck It Uber Institute/University-A variety of badass universities that do badass science. Whom also rejected me.

Reviewer 1: That asshole that keeps tanking my paper in review. Grrr...

Zombie Trout-An analogy to one of the several awesome techniques I use in lab. Also an easter egg for The Middleman fans.

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Unrealistic Expectations: Counterpoint

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