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    Tiktaalik: Sorry I'm a little late to the party here, but I thought I'd add in a couple of anecdotes of my own... My freshman year, I had an advisor that told me... more »
    Chrissyteenychan: Sexism, yay! Hasn't gone away! Experienced it in college, experience it now. Though as a union member, I am guaranteed equal pay for equal work. That ... more »
    TeresaBrookline: when i was at wellesley my film professor was in an open-relationship-polyamory thing with a male english professor and a girl the year ahead of me. ... more »
    thechibster63: This really upsets me...Harold Bloom is a famous Shakespeare scholar, and now I have to hate him. more »
    katworthy: Sexism definitely still exists. I think it became more poignant when I got to grad school. In undergrad I had a great support network that stomped ou... more »
    chennui: The dynamic of older men/young women has always seemed fraught with sexism, not just in the academia area. Thus far in my college career, the only mal... more »
    la.donna.pietra: I saw this phenomenon in reverse, sorta, at UCSC in the mid-'90s. One of the professors in the Literature department was very out, which was cool. He ... more »
    frenchic: Ok so where I am currently pursuing a master's degree in library science we have an instructor who was the former dean. He is the former dean because... more »
    A-girl: My freshman year (in the late 90's) - a professor did a whole tirade about how he couldn't do anything anymore because people were 'whiners'. I rememb... more »
    l0l0b0t: (first post!) I was taking a rigorous math class (think everyday 9 - 5) affectionately termed 'math camp' and we frequently broke into smaller discuss... more »
    starlessnight (of the living dead): It sounds kind of odd to say this, but I kind of feel relieved that there is a "intelligent = not attractive" stereotype. It makes being pretty one le... more »
    jennfizz: I'm finishing up my Ph.D in political theory at a very large state school and while the majority of my professors (and our department in general) is m... more »
    austen_g: From the Glass Ceiling Review: I am a science professor at an exceedingly liberal and tolerant West Coast university ... where there are, in fact, ac... more »
    Valois: Oh my, all of this rings true. I'm a doctoral student studying, er, the history of sex. I could tell tales that would make computer screens bleed. I t... more »
    TheFormerJuneBronson: I'm not in a good environment for the lengthy response this deserves, but to answer the question, hell yes, it's still an issue, at least in literary ... more »
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