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[reener06]

Either this year is worse than usual, or I just have waaay too many students, but if one more (usually male) student calls me "Mrs." instead of "Dr." I may scream. I have begun signing almost every email to a student with "Please note my appropriate title in the future." To which I'm sure they respond "geez, what a b*tch, isn't she uppity." I guess I am. I'm also noting many aren't noting my appropriate title. They are also ignoring my Bb announcement to go to the TAs first when they encounter a problem.

Needed to vent. Sigh.

[field_mouse]

If anyone was doubting that this was a gender problem, check out the online front page of the New York Times right now.  At the bottom, there is an 8-minute film on dolphin research, "starring" a senior Ph.D. researcher who is referred to alternately in the film as "Dr." or "Miss."

Right next to it is an interview of "Dr." or "Professor" Richard Dawkins.

Really, how can you expect your students to get it right when the New York Times is so backwards?

[totoro]

I just checked and they call her "Dr Herzing" all the way through apart from the first spelling out of her full name without any title.

[field_mouse]

Did you watch the 8-minute movie?  I did, and it is "Miss Herzing," "Dr. Herzing," "Miss Herzing," "Miss Herzing."