FemaleScienceProfessor

In Scientopia today, I present and discuss a reader's question about what a search committee can and can't consider in deciding wh...

In this month's Catalyst piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education , to appear next week(ish), I discuss dual-career couples. As I was ...

A reader writes with a description of her situation as a tenure-track professor whose department hired her husband and then created a positi...

The Sunday Styles section of The New York Times yesterday has an essay by a woman who is part of a 2-career academic couple of English pro...

First of all, I'm taking a little break from blogging for a longish weekend -- Friday through Monday. Comment moderation will be sporadi...

Earlier this summer I spoke with a colleague who mentioned in passing that a technician who was helping him when he visited another institut...

Sometimes there is a cosmic convergence of real life, email messages, and the blogosphere about a particular topic. This is one of those tim...

By popular demand, my probably-not-very-useful further thoughts on the issue of needing two academic positions at the same or neighboring in...

Today in a conversation with a colleague, my husband was stunned when the colleague made a somewhat bitter remark about how much easier my h...

A colleague at another university recently told me a long sad story about his department's numerous failed searches owing to the high ho...

Yesterday I heard a report on Marketplace (American Public Media) about 2-career academic couples . The story was motivated by the occurrenc...

Lately I've been talking to academic friends and acquaintances who have made mid-career moves to other universities. In particular, I ha...

As a follow-up on the last post, I should note that there are of course university policies regarding people who are related. I am a few yea...

Does the concept of nepotism describe the hiring of both members of an academic couple by one university? Yes, I suppose so, even though nei...

According to a gender-in-science expert at Stanford, Londa Schiebinger, who is quoted in a Nature feature : .. nirvana for married scientis...

What do you say when you're at a job interview and an interviewer (faculty member or administrator) brings up your spouse or partner eve...

Sometimes I think that universities are finally finding better ways to deal with academic couples, and then I see or hear something that sho...