Posted on 06/26/2015 1:06:53 PM PDT by rightistight
Writing in the Conversation, Sara B. Pritchard, an Associate Professor of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University, writes about the pervasiveness of "gender bias" that she claims is harming female professors in the United States.
"Now that most colleges and universities have completed their spring semesters, course instructors are opening up sealed manila envelopes, all over the country, to read their teaching evaluations," she begins her article, titled, "Should female faculty get bonus points to correct for gender bias in student evaluations?" She continues, "And, like each year, what they’ll find has been pervasively slanted by gender bias."
According to Pritchard, this is not a new phenomenon. "As a professor," she explains, "a member of the academy and a woman, I am deeply concerned about the professional and societal consequences of such bias. I’ve taught at four different institutions since 1996, full-time since 2004. I’ve read some of the research on gender bias in course evaluations, heard shocking stories from female colleagues, and, unfortunately, seen the issue in my own evaluations."
Wording and what students comment about teachers in their evaluations are divided along gendered lines, Pritchard contends, detailing, "Male faculty are more frequently described as “funny,” “brilliant,” “genius” and the unflattering “arrogant.” Needless to say, these adjectives not only reflect but also reinforce gender stereotypes for both men and women."
After explaining what she sees as gender bias, Pritchard then proposes a "temporary" solution: "Female faculty should receive an automatic correction — that is to say, a bonus — on their quantitative teaching evaluation scores. The bonus should be determined by average gender bias in teaching evaluations at their institution or national averages."
Then, when teachers are reviewed, their evaluation "should then be based on these adjusted data, not those laden with unconscious (and possibly conscious) bias."
Finally, Pritchard concludes, if gender bias is not dealt with, the stakes are high.
"Without a more diverse faculty that reflects the true breadth of our society and our world," she writes, "we will lose vital scholars, leaders and role models."
In other words,
“I can’t teach very well, so rather than improve my ability to communicate, I’d like you to lower your expectations of all female teachers.”
And for that, the rest of the female teachers should beat her ass.
Awwww. She’s not good enough.
Perhaps, but those would be incompetent 'leaders and role models', so we could probably live with it.
“And for that, the rest of the female teachers should beat her ass.”
Totally! This idiot liberal just insulted all females everywhere: “They are too stupid to make it on their own so just give it to them.”
‘bonus’?
Was that misspelled?
Is this only if or because they are fat, ugly, and homosexual? What about any of the other LGBT or whatever category of “it”? Is the end result to penalize heterosexual males? Maybe such BS will finally end the tradition of highly valuing Ivy League graduates.
To be fair, only female students should rate female lecturers. That eliminates the ‘bonus baseline’ in her argument.
And I suspect she really wouldn’t want ONLY female input for her evaluation.
Really? Because most college students are now female. It’s been that way for quite a while.
That's exactly what "affirmative action" means, regardless of whether it's based on sex, skin color, ethnic background, or perverted tendencies.
Women are 60% of college graduates, nearly 2/3 of the entrants to law & medical schools, they’re a protected class, they own half the money and all the p****...and yet they still b*tch & moan :(
Sans blague! Incroyable! Zut alors! Sacré bleu!
It’s Cornell. Not quite Ivy League.
Only females? So “equality” isn’t the objective?
What a crock of crap. Show me the evidence that the current ratio in whatever field you want to talk about isn't pure supply and demand. Oh, and while you're at it, please detail the metric by which you intend to measure "diverse faculty" As a Big Ten prof myself, I would argue that a "conservative" professor is about as diverse as you will find on any campus, plus they can actually offer a cogent argument to most liberal bullshit.
Professor Sara Pritchard is an historian of technology and an environmental historian specializing in twentieth-century France and the French empire...She is also presently conceptualizing a research project to investigate the emergence of concerns regarding lightscapes and soundscapes in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
More drivel at: http://sts.cornell.edu/people/sbp65.cfm
Latin for Slitherer of the House
Sexist wretch.
In other words, women should be expected to score lower than the male faculty.
It’s not about the money. It’s the principle of the thing.
When someone says “It’s not about the money. It’s the principle of the thing”,
it’s about the money.
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