July 30, 1999
Secrets of the Second Sex in Scholarly Life
"Half of the professors in your department now are women," I often hear. "Isn't that equality?"
Well, no, now that you ask. It was never about numbers. For 30 years, women have struggled to enter and participate in academic life. But impressive statistics mask the equally significant fact that we have not yet gained the power to define the terms of our participation.
The sociologist Arlie Hochschild
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