> Sarah writes:
.....
> Husband and I recently took new tenure-track positions here, his
> first,
> my second, and we are both ranked at Associate Professor. We were
> hired
> into a neuroscience group, which contains about 9 faculty, only one of
>> which is a woman. I hadn't met the woman until very recently because
> she
> didn't participate in our job interviews. But when we both went to see
>> her lab (and her husband's, they work together) and to find out what
> she's doing, I wondered why she seemed very interested in my spouse's
> work but not mine. I didn't give it a further thought, but a month
> later
> we ran into her at a party given by the Dean, whereupon she promptly
> introduced my husband to her associates as "the new Professor", and
> then
> introduced me as my husband's "assistant". Husband immediately
> corrected
> her and she apologized, but it really steams me that the only woman
> colleague I have in my research area made a sexist assumption about my
>> status.
What I find puzzling is, with only 9 faculty in the neuroscience group,
that she
could have made this mistake, and not been aware that you have your own
lab. (Do you and husband have the same name?)
I have noticed before a tendency to assume with husband-and-wife
hires that the woman "must have been hired because of her
husband". Actually, in real life exeperience these days, I find it is
more
likely to be the other way around... :-)
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