The Subtle Side of Discrimination

Linking merit raises to outside offers may discriminate against female professors with families

By JOAN WILLIAMS

Stop the tenure clock. That's the first solution offered when academics talk about how the tenure system and other workplace policies may discriminate against female professors with families.

In my first column for Career Network, I wrote about how mothers are disadvantaged...

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