naruball said:
Not everywhere. I'll give you an example. One of my lecturers was working at my university for a couple of years, but didn't have a permanent job. As soon as there was an opening for a permant job in my department, she applied for it and got it fair and square (she was really good). The next year she was pregnant. Lovely news, but a shame that she couldn't teach for either semester. Next year she was pregnant again! Lovely news, but somehow she was pregnant just around the same time, so no way she could teach in either semester. The year after that she got pregnant once more. And what an incredible coincidence. At a time that she couldn't teach either the first or the second semester. So, since she got the permanent job she has yet to teach. I don't know if next year she'll happen to be pregnant again, but she gets paid as much as everyone else and can focus on her research while others have to teach and mark thousands of exams and essays. She also gets paid the same amount of money every other lecturer with the same years working at that uni. I don't see how a man could have similar treatment or how she's being at a disadvantage. Now if she doesn't get a promotion to Senior Lecturer, would you blame the department? |
"In fact, the bias has now flipped: Female candidates are now twice as likely to be chosen as equally qualified men."
