November 2, 2001
Why 'Family First' Is Not a Win for Academic Feminists
A job applicant wrote to me recently to say that she is willing to leave her tenure-track university position to teach on a temporary contract at my college. She wants to do this, she wrote, because her husband got hired by a university near mine, they have a young child, and she believes the family should be together.
That job applicant must have assumed I'd be sympathetic. Who wouldn't be in favor of a young family being together?
So why did the letter make me, a mother and a
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