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Academic women face 'quiet desperation'.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief article)
Many women in academia experience subtle "deeply entrenched inequalities" in the workplace, according to a study published in Perspectives in Polities.
The study's authors interviewed 80 women at the University of California at Irvine. They learned that women are frustrated by a system that seems to undervalue their work and deny a positive home/work balance. Why?
* Outdated attitudes create unintended bias: Patronizing and sexist comments include calling women "honey."
* Positions are devalued once women hold them.
* Among senior faculty, women are ...
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