I also agree that it’s a helpful framework for men who, because of their privileged status, may not have thought much about these issues.

Lastly, IMO, many law firms are still at 101 (if they’ve even gotten that far) so this project is pretty much on target for that demographic.

It was amazing, because if we can’t get this shit right here amond the women and were women are in charge (historically), where will it ever be fixed?

@BeckyS: I know it happens, but it just astounds me when I hear of women my age and older screwing over younger ones because history didn’t move fast enough for them. So let’s see, should a doctor who had chicken pox as a kid refuse to inoculate her patients because she had to go through it?

We have got to see that what we did and suffered through and accomplished was and is part of the process of achieving the sexism-free world that we all want. Taking your bitterness out on women who had nothing to do with the frustrations you experienced is really undercutting your struggle in a serious way, and letting The Man win. Every time a woman *doesn’t* have to go through the garbage that you did is a tribute to you, and I hope older women can come to see it that way.

And, it would be useful for people (maybe especially men of a certain age) who are running departments, and want to be supportive of their women employees — my dad for example, is chief of his department and has done several things to support the women who work with him. I think he’s great on women’s issues — when I point them out to him. He never took any women’s studies classes and I’m not sure he gets all of feminism 101, even though I know he wants to be supportive and helpful. I’m going to send him the link.

This is why I can’t talk about it, I just start raging incoherently. And it’s not just people you don’t get along with, it’s people you can get along with and then they pull total ‘WTF?’ moves and that’s the worst.

I have also witnessed a pretty crappy situation with an adjunct who just had a baby. She never came in to talk about needing a schedule change (her husband is also an adjunct with us) before the arrival of the baby, and so was assigned the same schedule she’d had the previous few semesters. When she finally did come in to demand a different schedule, two weeks before registration opened, she was told that it wasn’t possible. The whole thing has now turned into a crazy stink and I’m left wondering why she didn’t just come in and talk about getting a new schedule months ago.

In the female-dominated company where I work, it comes down to age. Women who are a generation older than me really run the table on those four major bias patterns. They hit all the double binds and maternal wall issues, and hit them HARD. I think for women who were making their way in our industry in the 1960s and 70s, there was absolutely no room for anything other than “act like a man”, so they did. They made it work, but now they have very little empathy for those of us who came of age professionally in the 90s and 00s. We have more and better options now and want to exercise them, but our female bosses tend to actively discourage that and they favor of all the old chauvinist patterns they had to conform to. It’s discouraging, to say the least.