I'm not tenured, but I have a great deal of admiration for my older women colleagues, even though there are generation gaps in our personal styles and priorities.
My guess is, when we all are tenured, we'll be a similar conversation, baffled by the junior women who suddenly think it's important to have muffins at the faculty meetings, or some such thing that is very important to them, and simply strange--or even offensive--to us.
I don't think it's ever a good idea to assume that people should be on your side, rather than to assume you will have to win them over.
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Posted by lime to academicsecret at 8/06/2006 11:27:46 AM
