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E-PrinceWhen Patricia Brown, an art and archaeology professor, was offered tenure in 1989, she became the only tenured female professor in the department. It would be 10 years before another woman in the art and archaeology department — Carol Armstrong — reached ...(back to the article)
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Where's Equal Writes?
I would like to say that the quote about guys in the department being more serious than the girls was taking entirely out of context. I am slightly disappointed in the journalistic integrity displayed here as this quote does not express the nature of the comment as a whole. My greater comment on the subject explained that there is a stigma of unmanliness that surrounds the subject which both dissuades men from pursuing the subject in college and has in many cases kept them from getting a grounding in the arts prior to going to college. As such, guys must come to terms with these negative factors before they decide to become majors. On the other hand, girls do not face this stigma. Art history encourages strong critical-thinking skills. Many girls feel comfortable choosing this major because of this while guys do not. This is not to say that girls all choose the major for this reason; many are doubtlessly very serious about pursuing careers in the field. Regardless of their plans post graduation, girls in the department are every bit as hard-working and passionate about the subject.
Why girls congregate in fluffy majors rather than those with real-world applicability is a continuing mystery. Particularly since, as All Right-Thinking People Know, there are no differences between the sexes.
...and then we all got married, had 1.5 children, bought a house beyond our means with a 30 year mortgage, accumulated credit card debt, clocked in at 9 and out 7: having become just another real-world applicable cog... wanting music to listen to, art to view, poetry for valentines day and all the while denying people a proper start to their fluffy careers in the 'creative class.' very balanced, well-argued thinking there. oh, and it's women, not girls.
Nothing amuses me more than "enlightened artists" decrying the soulless science that has provided everyone with a standard of living that makes their activities feasible in the first place.
i don't believe the sciences are soulless, nor did i make a case for being more or less enlightened then anyone else. all that i was suggesting was a balance. i was trying to point out that standard of living and quality of life are different... both science and art are absolutely necessary, it's a question of why one might go to college... to learn to think, to learn how one thinks, to learn to do/make/produce? i would imagine they are all valuable skills, don't you think?
Wait, if all the majors these days are female, but the majority of hires/professors are male, then...?
Princeton, you could at least PRETEND you have some gender hiring equality in old guard departments...