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Another Leaky Pipeline: Women in History

By Siva Vaidhyanathan

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From Historiann:

You?re probably like Historiann, in that you didn?t get to see the recent AHA panel called ?The Leaky Pipeline: Issues of Promotion, Retention, and Quality of Life Issues for Women in the Historical Profession,? chaired by Leo Spitzer, and starring Tiya Miles, Claire Potter, and Nancy Hewitt. (Potter has posted a brief description at Tenured Radical, in which she reveals that the room this panel was assigned was in fact IN a garage, presumably with leaky pipes about to burst all over the assembled pilgrims. Surely, it?s just a coincidence that the panel on women?s working conditions was given this room!) The title of the panel appears to have been inspired by a 2005 Report on the Status of Women in the Profession by Liz Lunbeck, which argues that the ?pipeline? from Ph.D. to full Professorship for women ?is in fact quite leaky, with women dropping out at every step up the ladder.? The most senior of the three panelists, Nancy Hewitt, wrote to Historiann and very generously shared the full text of her comments with me, the title of which was ?The Feminization of History, or the Disciplining of Women? Women in the Historical Profession since the 1970s.? ...

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Full post as published by SIVACRACY .NET on January 14, 2008 (boomark / email).