It's a lose-lose situation. If you stand up to the dodgers, you are uncollegial, bitter, and a whistleblower, and the work never gets done (or it gets done poorly). If you give in to them, you get stuck with all of the work. It's so weird how faculty are "required" to do service, but there is absolutely zero accountability or financial incentive. I guess that's why the dodgers have wised up and have stopped doing any service.

I'm frequently asked to produce "faculty load" reports, sometimes explicitly comparing male and female faculty. Beyond the standart course sections, credit hours, students advised, percent time self-reported on research and committees, etc., does anyone have suggestions for ways to quantify the Artful Dodger factor?

When I was a junior white male, I did a lot of scut work, including taking minutes. And indeed we had a more senior white female on our faculty. In doing the scutwork, I learned how things worked. Now I am one of those very senior white males and on the committee(s) for my experience, and whatever wisdom I might have come into. If you want my help or suggestions, I'll be glad to help you and tell you whome to call, &c., but it is now your turn to do scutwork.

Guess who it is in the confidential closed conferences of the Justices of the Supreme Court who keeps the minutes, who answers the door, &c. ? It isn't the Chief Justice. It is the most junior Associate Justice, in this instance, a Latina female.

Lesbo Profe, quit whining and "bitching" and pay your dues. Like the rest of us have done.

Lesboprof: You go girl! We have to speak up when our hetero sisters, who think they have more of a stake in avoiding ruffling the rooster feathers of their male colleagues, keep silent and continue to submit to this abuse. Women who are afraid, for examle, that they will be considered unfeminine, undesirable man-haters, or worse -- maybe even lesbian if they dare to speak out. And in response to ksledge: your argument empowers the dodgers, and women have been using it for way too long. There comes a time, in matters big and small, when one must persist and take the consequences. Men exploit women directly and indirectly, conciously and unconciously, all the time. ALL men ALL the time? Well, yes, pretty much. And as long as they can get away with it, they will continue to do so.

Wake up, Prof Number-name! This is more than "paying dues". Your female colleagues have been doing a heck of a lot more than that for YEARS. And getting blip-all for it.

Have you ever been handed a sheet of paper by a perfectly healthy colleague within four steps of a copier and told to make a copy? Have your colleagues ever assumed you would assume the duties of a teaching assistant who suddenly went missing - without even asking if you were available? How many of your "temporary" tasks have you been saddled with for more than five years? How many jobs that other people get credit for are you doing?

Don't you dare puff about "paying dues" - been there, done that, in spades, and bloody well tired of it.

And before someone makes a crack about it -
I don't hate men - I've just had it with cleaning up after them.

In answer to your first question, Professor Dunnett, no. I have not. Not in academia anyway. And no woman nor man in my department for the last 40 years has either, so far as I am aware. You seem to have been in an unusually trying situation, but many of the items in the original posting are things that junior faculty have always done, and yes, it is dues paying.

I suggest an article in the Chronicle of some years ago by Professor Billie Wright Dziech, called

"An Older Colleague's Reality Check for Junior Professors."

Here's the URL: http://chronicle.com/article/An-Older-Colleagues-Realit/28531/

Professor NumberName.

easy solution. don't volunteer for anything until others that are perceived to be doing less--volunteer. Then when assignments are handed out, document who does what, track it and then take your findings to the responsible party who can change this. Use your research and documentation abilities you use every day to help yourself. No one likes a whiner, I tell that to my dog every day. When people start getting things writing with dates ad facts they take them more seriously and have something concrete in hand to take back to whoever else they discuss it with. Instead of being a whiner you'll be someone who they either a) take seriously b) fear you may take this a legal step further c) annoying and they want to get rid of you, but now they have a paper in their hand you could use as evidence of retaliation so they are back a).
Much as I understand your frustration, I never learned to type or make coffee (I don't drink it) so when anyone ever asked me to do any of those two things, and they were usually white males, I simply said I didn't know how and walked away. Even when I was the junior person in an office and that person always made coffee, I never did and they did it themselves. I would always offer to make them tea when I made my own, however.
Treat yourself with the same respect as these dodgers treat themselves and it will become contagious. Or it's the wrong place to be so get out while you can.

Another "easy solution" has been to offload "scutwork" like taking committee minutes (and creating and uploading to the committee's Web site) to a professional staff member. Yes, usually a female one, including mid-level professionals with extensive experience who are (a) not on the committee and (b) already have more than a full plate of responsibilities. (Another "opportunity to embrace"!) Who does the offloading? That, in my experience, is not confined to a particular gender; female faculty members can and do join their male Artful Dodger brethren in their eagerness to pass these tasks off to "a staffer."

Slackers are to be admired and emulated, not castigated. I have a senior colleague who gets away with murder. I watch and try to learn.

A few years ago as an associate dean I made a spreadsheet with all faculty in the college and each committee for the college and the university. Upon the query by a female faculty I did a total for each person and sorted by female to male commitments. There was a 3 to 1 relationship...in other words, female faculty were serving on and average of 3 committees to the average of 1 for each male faculty member. Very telling. Of course there was the blah blah about come committees requiring more effort but it held little water as one woman was on the university strategy committee and chairing it as well as on the graduate council and several other very involving and heavy duty commitments. In contrast, the number of administrators in the college that were female was ONE..me.
When discussions of diversity came up, they were often dismissed as irrelevant in face of the significant progress we had made in that arena..with our 200% increase from the previous year. We had 7% one year and 14% the next. Whoa! Is that statistically significant? It never ceases to amaze me that university faculty use anecdotes for their conclusions about the happenings and issues of the institute but are trained to use statistics for their research. There is a decided oddity in such attitudes that personal experience trumps real data.

Personal experience are not "real data"?

Dodging work, aka weaseling, is not the purview of straight white men or angry lesbian feminists. It is a survival skill, and those who master the art of artful dodging are worthy of respect and praise.

People who toot their own horn at work are perhaps the dodgiest of all. How is lesboprof's griping and self-promotion any less weasely than artful dodging? Does the young gay faculty man get props for kissing lesboprof's shiny hiny?

People aren't special because they volunteer for mundane tasks. They are either chumps, or weasels. Which one is lesboprof?