This is to follow up on Karen's comment about why men even those that
are tenured might be threatened by having more women entering a field.
As a graduate student I participated in a Gender/Science reading group
and one of the members was trained as an anthroplogists. In looking at
studies of careers, it has been shown that when more women enter a field
the salaries go down and the prestige of a job goes down. Saracastically
it's "If a women can do it, must not be worth much."
Some classic examples are secretaries, at the
end of the 1800's secretaries were men and it was a step up the business
ladder. As more women entered this job it became more of a dead end job.
Teachers is another example.
So unconciously, our male peers may be fearing this.
Just an engineer lurking among biologists,
Anne
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