Academic Women in Neoliberal Times by Briony Lipton

Author:Briony Lipton
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030450625
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Isolation

Sidonie talks about how it was much more stressful juggling family life and work at the research-intensive university where she previously worked than at a teaching-focused institution where she works now. She felt that she couldn’t talk about any of the issues affecting her (and presumably others couldn’t either):

The one thing I have noticed between the two different institutions, one where I did research work and my current institution where I am teaching, is in the first institution if you were heterosexual, married woman and had children you were outed. You could not talk about your partner or your children. You were snubbed. And I am talking about being snubbed by the other women in the department. But if you were gay and had a child that child was accepted in the department, that child was fussed over. There were a lot of single females, not all of them gay, but there, single, un-married females were predominant amongst the staff, then married heterosexual men with children, and queer men and women—single and in relationships. In a sense, if you were a woman, heterosexual and with children you couldn’t talk about it. You couldn’t talk about your children or personal life.

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