On here for a moan, really, and some moral support from others who might have had the same experience. Was interviewed for promotion from lecturer to senior lecturer yesterday. Discrimination/lack of women in promoted positions a well-documented state of affairs in my field (as in many). I was asked at interview to "explain" why I'd been so unproductive in the first 8 years of my career when, among other things, I had two kids and two years of maternity leave. This is just so wrong, isn't it? In the last six years I've published a book, 9 articles and won a ÂŁ45,000 grant (am in a humanities subject area)! Surely it's obvious that motherhood held me up and they are asking me to justify this!!!
Am fuming. Don't know if I will get the promotion yet but if I don't these people should be taken to court. Unis in the country really get away with so much discrimination, don't they?
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WillPenn · 16/06/2015 13:09
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