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Published · transcript-backedAshley Mears: observation
3 Jun 2020 Conversations with Tyler Ashley Mears on Status and Beauty
“This is a perennial conversation that I have with my women colleagues about the number of students that ask for exceptions in their grades, especially of younger faculty, young women faculty, the number of students that open up with their problems. And we’re more likely, I think, to keep tissues in our offices for crying students than our male colleagues.”
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- Ashley Mears
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- 3 Jun 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…What kinds of emotional labor do women professors have to perform that maybe the male professors do not? This is a perennial conversation that I have with my women colleagues about the number of students that ask for exceptions in their grades, especially of younger faculty, young women faculty, the number of students that open up with their problems. And we’re more likely, I think, to keep tissues in our offices for crying students than our male colleagues. So, there’s that. Just kind of being a crutch to students and being seen as somebody that’s more relatable by virtue of age and by gender means that we have more of these kinds of drains on our emotional work than male colleagues. I don’t know if you would agree or if you find that. Do you also keep tissues in your office? I don’t. But my office is so crowded. I think actually everything is in there, and probably that includes some tissues.…
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