tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17226356.post33056595507852852..comments2023-10-25T07:42:21.149-05:00Comments on Average Professor: I . . . but . . .Average Professorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13879007878874956437noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17226356.post-48945116407530294622008-05-20T11:13:00.000-05:002008-05-20T11:13:00.000-05:00Joan, sorry I didn't see this until just now. To ...Joan, sorry I didn't see this until just now. To answer your question, no. The assistant prof <I>dudes</I> I know all express the same level of anxiety that I do, some even more. <BR/><BR/>But I tend to hang out with very down-to-earth assistant profs, male or female. It's possible (probable?) that there's a whole segment so self-assured (read: arrogant) they are never anxious, but since I don't gravitate towards such people I probably wouldn't have a conversation with them about it, so I wouldn't know!Average Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13879007878874956437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17226356.post-88524463366437322142008-03-05T11:16:00.000-06:002008-03-05T11:16:00.000-06:00but it was because two years ago I was still deep ...<EM>but it was because two years ago I was still deep in the midst of assistant professor angst</EM><BR/><BR/>I sure wish more people talked about this. I had a lot of misery, and it really impacted my productivity. I haven't seen my male colleagues facing similar issues. Do you see any gender difference there?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959846644303874181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17226356.post-1637142245759872542008-02-17T22:39:00.000-06:002008-02-17T22:39:00.000-06:00Yes, NIH-funded research is much, much worse. I co...Yes, NIH-funded research is much, much worse. <BR/><BR/>I could go on and on and on about this, and more or less already have on my blog. <BR/><BR/>But to make it brief, I think one of the biggest problems is just complacency. <BR/><BR/>Everyone has been going on the totally false assumption that biomedical research is somehow less sexist because there are a lot more women going into these kinds of fields. <BR/><BR/>But perhaps because of a total lack of outreach and support, the phenomenon Phoebe Leboy describes is still endemic: departments that were once forced to take affirmative action to hire women are no longer required to, so they don't. <BR/><BR/>Given the opportunity to withhold tenure from the few existing female faculty after 5 or 10 years in a department, they choose to replace them- with young men.Ms.PhDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06542602867472447035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17226356.post-12099424793549324622008-02-10T15:55:00.000-06:002008-02-10T15:55:00.000-06:00I'm not in an NIH-related discipline either and I ...I'm not in an NIH-related discipline either and I feel similarly to you (though I am still a student). From reading blogs by workers in the biosciences, I think there is something different going on for them. It seems to be more competitive with bigger labs and bigger budgets.EcoGeoFemmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11236907917990309659noreply@blogger.com