By: Faith

Faith
Mon, 20 Apr 2015 13:36:43 +0000

Well written article, Lantern. Definitely makes me want to delve further and not only think deeper, but research more robustly the concept as a whole. The issues involved are many, some implicit and some concrete: women’s expectations of themselves and, in cases where applicable, women’s expectations of their spouses; employers’ expectations of their personnel and employers’ ability to release conventional thought and force forward with untried but promising concepts. I have heard it said that women faculty do not ask for promotions or higher pay or negotiate summer salary. I think if an employer is committed to forging a greater equality, perhaps an employer is then willing to take the financial burden and present to its female faculty hires that such negotiations are available. While not ideal, it is a step toward strengthening future generations of women to hold hire expectations; it is a sowing of the seeds. And concomitantly, we as a society need to recalibrate our response to strong women. It is not a secret that we label strong women in a negative light, unlike how we label strong men. It is a universal relearning.

Again, Alex Drummer, I found your article to be exceptionally well written and effectively presented.