FemaleScienceProfessor

I went to a small liberal arts college on the East Coast and I loved it. It was the perfect place for me to go to college. I met some amazin...

What's the BEST time to have a baby if you're in or hoping for a tenure-track position? : whenever you want to have a baby. I think ...

When I was in my first tenure-track position at University #1 and my husband was a postdoc thousands of miles away, we both applied for ever...

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...

Recent discussions in my department and comments on these pages bring to mind issues related to the academic hiring process. In theory, ever...

I should mention the second conversation that I had with the professor who, when I was in grad school, asked if I was doing a Ph.D. because ...

I like hearing about all the various responses to some of the more annoying questions one gets as a Female Science Professor or as a woman s...

I recently read the commentary in Nature titled "Does gender matter?" (B. Barres, v. 442, 133-136, 13 July 2006), as well as an in...

RE-UPDATED Reading the comments about other women's experiences with being mistaken for non-professors is entertaining in a quasi-sick w...

I've been reading the recent articles (e.g., New York Times), letters, and essays on the issue of the differences between male and femal...

Once I get started with the stories of all the times I've been mistaken for a student, it's hard to stop. Although these incidents a...

I have written before about how some people have trouble believing I am a professor, either because I don't look "old" enough,...

I saw an amazing -- as in amazingly inane, off-base, bizarre -- thing on the web recently. A woman wrote to a fashion adviser, asking for ad...

The question I am asked the most often is how I manage a career as a science professor at research university with raising a young child. I ...

I recently finished a grant proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF), and it was actually great fun putting it all together. I like...

The other day I mentioned that professors are not paid by the university in the summer, so technically we can't be expected to do any te...

I do not look my age, I do not look like a professor, I do not look like a scientist. My colleagues are, with a few exceptions, very kind an...