Academia —
Oh for pete’s sake (via):
Flipping his badge open, he said, “No, not with that shirt. You’re protesting and you have to go.”
Beginning to get his drift, I said firmly, “Not before I finish my coffee.”
He insisted that I leave, but still not quite believing my ears, I tried one more approach to reason. “Hey, listen. […]
Blog-fixing-upping won’t happen until June, but it will happen - and almost certainly under the same familiar brand and domain name, archives to be restored just as soon as I can figure out how. Meanwhile:
On mentoring:
In fact, I’d go so far as to say that if the profession were all it’s cracked up to be, […]
Just a selection of data from this report on the gender pay gap in academia:
Academic Discipline
Women
Men
N
Women
Men
Female differential
Earth, Atmosphere, and Oceanographic Sciences
8.0%
92.0%
50
$64,751
$79,410
-$14,659
Civil Engineering
15.0%
85.0%
40
$65,169
$78,829
-$13,660
Mechanical Engineering
8.0%
92.0%
50
$66,979
$88,958
-$21,979
Physics
7.3%
92.7%
55
$55,411
$86,600
-$31,189
Physical Sciences, Other
15.0%
85.0%
20
$67,418
$76,327
-$8,909
The report doesn’t list discipline-specific corrections for things like experience, number of publications, external funding, etc., but it does take those factors into account studywide - and […]